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Archive for September 6, 2009
How View > Print Size works; or the mythical “72 ppi”
September 6, 2009 by Brad.
Greetings!
There is a common misconception that the correct “resolution” for images viewed on a monitor or the web is 72 ppi. One of the undesirable side-effects of believing this misconception is that it can lead you to get the wrong display of images with the View > Print Size command in your image editing application.
The problem is that View > Print Size depends on your application knowing the correct screen resolution and your screen resolution is probably not 72 ppi. Read the rest of this entry »
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