From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure question
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:43:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <044716ad-c067-de5c-8d49-34c854b3caa3@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.yvs544s0p7eajd@marco.fz-rossendorf.de>
On 2/17/2017 3:20 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
> I am unsure about the "canonical" way to scale images to the desired
> size. my current understanding is, that `scale=' should do what I want
> in a way portable across `context' incarnations. so currently I use
> commands like
>
> \externalfigure[image.png][scale=750]
>
> to adjust the image size to my taste.
>
> my problem: the same document looks completely different regarding image
> size in the produced pdf with standalone installations on osx64 and
> linux-64. actually, on oxx64 I have to use something like `scale=1500'
> where on linux-64 `scale=750' seemingly does about the same.
>
> questions:
>
> * what am I missing? why does the same document compile differently? I
> can only guess that `context' (or luatex?) has two different opinions of
> dpi resolution on the two machines when producing the pdf? where can I
> control/check this?
>
> * if `scale=' is not the way to achieve invariant and unambiguous size
> of images embedded in the document, what is? `width=XXX cm'? i.e.: how
> is this supposed to be done correctly(TM)?
just use width=4cm and so
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-17 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-17 14:20 j. van den hoff
2017-02-17 14:42 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-02-17 14:43 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-02-17 16:04 ` j. van den hoff
2017-02-17 16:51 ` Alan Braslau
2017-02-17 17:05 ` j. van den hoff
2017-02-17 17:43 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-17 17:42 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-17 18:06 ` Alan Braslau
2017-02-17 18:20 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-17 18:20 ` j. van den hoff
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