[tei-council] updated facsimile odd

Conal Tuohy conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz
Thu Aug 9 19:41:10 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:47 -0600, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:17 +1200, Conal Tuohy wrote:
> > If the image is 100px wide, that would mean
> > rendering it 100px wide. However, the real-world dimensions of that will
> > vary depending on the resolution of the rendering device: on a computer
> > monitor that might be a few cm across, whereas on a laser printer it
> > would be more like a few mm. I think it's clear that the measurement
> > units used here should not make assumptions about the resolution of the
> > end-user's display device. That should be a matter for presentation
> > software.

> In our more limited P5 world, the reference is still to the original
> graphic rather than the rendition device. 

Well it seems to me Lou was stating precisely the opposite - that
graphic/@width and @height specify the desired OUTPUT dimensions, and
definitely NOT the width and height of the image file itself.




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