On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:41 pm, Steve Doonan wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 12:57, dh wrote:
Hi all, I did a test page and thought that (as OO may be my main word processor for awhile) I'd include some graphics. When I view the page on screen everything appears correctly proportioned, but when I do a print out the graphics are distorted (stretched out).
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If I were troubleshooting this problem on my own computer, the first thing I would think to check is the dots-per-inch resolution that the graphic(s) are set to, because in my experience when a graphic is embedded in a word processing document and the graphic has a resolution that does not match the dots-per-inch of the monitor or the dots-per-inch of the printer, the word processing program sometimes scales the graphic in unpredictable ways or it is printed not as it appears on the monitor.
Thanks for the Idea, I seem to remember some related problem w/ the Amiga, rectangular pixels or something.
I experienced this problem on a Macintosh (am new to Linux) but perhaps it is relevant to Linux as well.
If the graphic happens to have a DIFFERENT dots-per-inch setting for vertical compared to horizontal (100 dpi horizontal by 80 dpi vertical, for example) that may exascerbate the problem (or the unpredictability of how a program will scale the graphic that is embedded on the word processing document page, or how it is printed.
So are you suggesting changing the dpi of the graphic w/ gimp, or is there a setting for xfree86 which I can use system wide? TIA -- dh I've been awake: 3 hours 43 minutes Suse Linux 7.2 professional kernel 2.4.17, xFree86 4.2.0, kde 2.2.2