Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!well!fh From: fh@well.sf.ca.us (Fabian Hahn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: IMG gormat Message-ID: <25171@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 1 Jun 91 22:42:53 GMT References: <1991May29.014046.24302@lsuc.on.ca> Lines: 27 jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) 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? No, do not do this. All programs that import .IMG images should at least use these values to calculate the aspect ratio of the picture. Our product, Wordflair II uses them if they seem reasonable to display images correctly when the preserve aspect-ratio option is selected. If you do not have any information about the original pixel size put in something like 72dpi x 72dpi. > No matter how you feel about the Amiga/Atari/Mac wars, >the IMG "standard" just isn't sufficiently defined and has not real >underlying rational. You are probably right, but .IMG is the only format currently supported by the GEM functions in the ATARI. So it will be around for quite some time more. We should try to get all programs that support .IMG's to use them cosistent, this would take care of at least some the problems that we are having with .IMG's. Fabian Hahn Goldleaf Publishing, Inc.