On Mar 27, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Andreas Mayer wrote:

> 
> Am 27.03.2012 um 19:29 schrieb David Duncan:
> 
>> Simplest solution is to save the scale along side the image itself 
> 
> That's what I just implemented. But I still think PNG images should retain 
> the scale factor. Why saving that information elsewhere when the format 
> explicitly supports this?


Primarily because people abuse the resolution field, and as such it cannot be 
trusted for this particular function. In a perfect world, we would only ever 
see 72 (1x) or 144 (2x) in the resolution field, but instead the value tends to 
be practically random.
--
David Duncan


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