[sane-devel] First version of the new test backend released

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 00:08:01 +0200


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:55:02AM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> This is brilliant. Really, really good. One thing that might want to
> consider in addition would be a mode/option/whatever that produces a
> ruler or something so that the frontend resolution behaviour can be
> checked
> 
> ie at 300 dpi the ruler might be 1800 pixels long w/ divisions every
> 300 pixels, and at 72 dpi it would be 432 pixels long, divisions every
> 72 pixels. So when viewed at 1:1 resolution scale the ruler should
> look the same in any resolution. Does that make sense?

There is a test image for all modes now that heads in a similar
direction: simple black and white squares of 10 mm width and height.

This image should look the same for any resolution if the images
have the same geometry.

Does this help?

Bye,
  Henning