DPI stands for Dots Per Inch
Dots per inch (DPI, or dpi) is a measure of spatial printing or video dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch (2.54 cm).
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Printing XPS document with image. Different image size when set different dpi
I printing XPS document with images, that contains QR-codes.
Image creating sample here:
Image image = CreatePresentation(qrCode);
image.Height = 200;
image.Width = 200;
image.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
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Configuration qualifiers for 320x480 Android (Galaxy Ace)
I have an application that I am struggling to make look right on a Galaxy Ace 320*480 mdpi.
Using drawable-sw320dp-mdpi seems to effect most of the other screens such as the Galaxy S2 (480*800 hpdi) even though I have a drawable-sw480dp etc which…
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Centering admob ad with Air/actionscript 3
I have an Air/As3 app with a stage size of 1024x600 px auto scaled to fit a screen of 1280x720 px. When I request an admob ad (using an ANE) the ad width size reported is 320 (Standard Banner) but this size is based on DPI not in real pixel and I…
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Layout for different size screens (Android)
I'm working on an app, it looks great on 7" devices (Nexus and Dell streak 7). I created the images from different densities, so it looks good.
However, when I try to run the app on my phone (Samsung Galaxy 2) or Tablet 10" it doesn't look good at…
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"Bitmap too large" when changing my background DPI to 240
My background always look bad in my app on my smartphone, so I searched around and found THIS article, so I created 3 copies of my background (120,160,240) DPI, but now I get this error:
03-16 11:41:13.984: W/OpenGLRenderer(19236): Bitmap too…
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Mobile web design for various devices
I'm new to developing sites for mobile devices and looking for some insight from those that know more than I do. Since starting this project I have learned that there are a lot of differences between the iphone and the Android, which I believe is…
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Bad dpi on Nexus 7
I have incorrect UI on Nexus 7.
I have 10" tablet with mdpi, and my UI is OK. But on 7" nexus 7 all images and texts look very big.
I coped images from mdpi to tvdpi. and now, it is OK for me.
But, is it correct to have 2 folders with the same…
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Differences dpi for Android and Samsung Ace mobile
Specifications:
Samsung Galaxy Ace: LCD TFT / 3.5 inch / 480 x 320 pixels / 164 dpi.
but:
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
float V_dpi = metrics.densityDpi;
V_dpi = 160 but…
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Viewport, target-densitydpi, pixelratio behaviour in chrome/mozilla on galaxy tab/nexus 7
<'meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, target-densitydpi=..., user-scalable=0" />'
tested on different devices and browsers. Both tablets have 1280*800px physical resolution. The galaxy tab 10" the…
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Scaling an Image with the Image tiff and x/y resolution
I've got an issue with scaling the tiff images to their original size
if just the DPI resolution of the x and y axes are given. Could you
please point me to a How-To or explain it?
x resolution: 203 DPI
y resolution: 98 DPI
The tiff image is a…
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Creating consistent dimensions betwen Android Browser and Desktop?
I have a web page which works very well on a regular computer, and handles resizing down very well / you can re-size the window to any size you like, and the app is still useful. You can also zoom in with Ctrl+ if you like, and the app's layout will…
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Best practices for exporting images for the web - DPI/PPI
How should I be preparing images for the web?
Each device seems to have a different resolution. I've always exported images at 72PPI. Is that even the proper number these days? Do some people use 96PPI? Which is better for non "retina" images?
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c#/WPF - getting DPI - matrix returning 1
I'm writing an application using C#/WPF and I'm trying to get DPI of a screen. I'm trying to do it this way:
Window MainWindow = Application.Current.MainWindow;
PresentationSource MainWindowPresentationSource =…
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Android tablet compatibility
I've got different dimen values/images for ldpi/mdpi/hdpi/xhdpi which work fine on phones. But when a low res tablet is running my app it goes to the mdpi values. Which means a big tablet screen gets the lower dimen values (and images) and…
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Android does not honor ldpi qualifier
I want to distinguish layout/drawables for the following two devices:
1) 7" hdpi
2) 7" ldpi
So I am using the following qualified directories:
1) layout-sw600dp-hdpi / drawable-sw600dp-hdpi
2) layout-sw600dp-ldpi / drawable-sw600dp-ldpi
But when I…
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