Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> In <ddd40m$j9o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> In the GIMP 1.2.3 it only appears to change the rulers. I have played
>> with it for a few minutes, zooming in and out, trying to see the
>> behaviour of selections and snapping to pixel edges. I still don't
>> understand...
>
> If "dot for dot" is active then 100% means "show all pixels". If "dot for
> dot" is not active then 100% means "show the image at a size calculated by
> a) size in pixels, b) monitor resolution and c) image resolution".
>
> No matter how you call the menu item, many people will have problems to
> understand the latter.
I see what you mean now. The change in the grid scale (rulers) was the only
things that caught my sight. I suppose it would have a distracting effect
to whoever attempts to figure out the impact of Dot for Dot.
Then again, one will need to have a clue about rendering to understand the
meaning of the technical phrase, which is probably day-to-day jargon to an
expert. This is definitely deceiving to an average user (unless there are
tooltips), much like the offering of different types of smoothing filters
(there is usually a default one for rookies).
Thanks for the answer,
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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