POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : output image DPI : Re: output image DPI Server Time
3 May 2024 08:55:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: output image DPI  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 2 Apr 2017 14:15:00
Message: <web.58e13f63cc3ed4b5b01136120@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 02.04.2017 um 15:47 schrieb Thorsten Froehlich:
> > clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> >> Quiz:
> >>
> >> Q1: How many people involved in that thread had any actual experience in
> >> the printing business?
> >> A1: Only one, as it seems.
> >
> > LOL, no just one claimed to have that.
> >
> >> Q2: What was the opinion of that person?
> >> A2: Not yours, as it seems.
> >
> > Well, you should have read the whole thread then. And all those it refers to,
> > and those that are referenced in there, and so on. Goes well with my statement
> > that it comes up every few years then, doesn't it? ;-)
>
> I'd say, that might just be a symptom of the discussion forum (and the
> dev team back then) having been dominated by people seeing only the
> artists' side of things, and being unable or unwilling to look beyond that.

Or those people just knew the difference between what a user "wants" vs what a
user "needs"...

Back in a 2005 discusssion on the topic there also was a link to this page:
http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html - seems it is still relevant
today because some people refuse to learn.


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