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From: "j. van den hoff" <veedeehjay@gmail.com>
To: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: \externalfigure question
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:20:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.yvs544s0p7eajd@marco.fz-rossendorf.de> (raw)

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)?

thx/joerg


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-17 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-17 14:20 j. van den hoff [this message]
2017-02-17 14:42 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-02-17 14:43 ` Hans Hagen
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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