- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:36:26 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky: > Christoph Päper wrote: >>> So when I print a 100px wide image on my 1200dpi laser printer, it >>> would come out about 2mm wide? >> >> Sure, if one of its dots makes one pixel. > > That's not a reasonable approach, really. The really reasonable approach would be true angular units, not one in disguise, using the name of a traditionally non-angular unit. If the printer driver offered a zoom feature, that would be another story completely. > Consider that the author never specified the size of this image -- > 100px is just its intrinsic size as a bitmap... Then everything else specified in pixels would scale proportionally.
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