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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Re: IMG gormat
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Date: 29 May 91 22:08:49 GMT
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In article <1991May29.014046.24302@lsuc.on.ca> jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) writes:
>In article <A0b64gka@pfunk.hanse.de> blackbox@pfunk.hanse.de writes:
>>In <CMM.0.90.2.675111152.larserio@kvart.ifi.uio.no>, LarsErikOsterud writes:
...
>>1 word          pixel width in microns (1/1000 mm, 25400 microns per inch)
>>1 word          pixel height in microns
>
>     Does most software actually take this into account for anything
>or can you leaave the pixel dimension 0?

I've talked to several other Atari developers who _do_ use this information.
Applications that print image files especially need to know the pixel size.

	--Steve	

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