>I would have said just the oposite: Most images are created to be viewed on
>monitors so assuming 72 pixels/inch makes sense, especially when resizing is
>available.
My first thought was that 75 dpi would be better. It divides nicely into
300 for laser printers. Maybe this should be something that the user can
choose -- a pair of radio buttons, for example:
Default graphics resolution:
[x] Inkjet/dot matrix printer (72 dpi)
[ ] Laser printer (75 dpi)
FrameMaker has a dialog that lets you change the resolution of any bitmap
graphic to 72, 75, 150, 300, or 600 dpi. (There is also a Scale dialog if
you want to tweak further.) Back when I used MS Weird for a living, all
bitmaps came in at 72 dpi and it was up to us to scale them properly. For
a 300 dpi laser printer, I used multiples of 24% to make them look nice
and sharp on paper.
>Some smarts to let the user know that opening the pic at a 1/1
>ratio is going to make it outlandishly huge would be nice.
Would it be as simple as I think it would be to calculate the width of a
bitmap, and if it's wider than the current column, bring up a scaling
dialog along with the pic?
Larry