- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:57:47 -0400
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 15:36 +0100, Simon Sapin wrote: > If the image specifies two different resolutions for the horizontal > and vertical direction, the average of the two values is used: > <code>(horizontal + vertical) / 2 <code> This is pretty much certain to give unsatisfactory results in cases where one or both values are correct. Probably you should scale down in one dimension to preserve aspect ratio, as Florian said while I was writing this reply. This sort of TIFF image is sometimes produced by fax machines, as horizontal resolution is more important than vertical for Western/Latin-script text, but I don't know how frequently one finds them these days. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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