< snip > > As for your original question. > if you have 4800x9600 ppi, and you scan an inch square of material, > you will end up with 4800x9600 pixels. Thus the question if you are > having a laugh, as your question seemed trivial.
I am really sorry you see my questions as trivial, they are not meant to be. Much of my difficulty is one of understanding the terminology used. For example and, assuming I understand correctly, if I scan a photograph which is, say, 5 inches square and then display that scan on my monitor, it will measure 24,000 pixels X 48,000 pixels. To test this on my rather cheap Canon LIDE20 I scanned a picture which is 5 inches square saved the file, opened the file in GIMP, cropped so that only the picture was there and GIMP said it was 729 pixels X 729 pixels. Please explain and, just in case you think I am some youngster trying to get his homework done, I was 81 years old last birthday. Norman _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
