Non-square pixels
Migrated purely for scrupulousness: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171543
From 2006-10-07
Summary:
Womble2 wrote...
There are still some devices and media, particularly in digital video, that use non-square pixels (aspect ratio 1:1). Currently Inkscape has horizontal and vertical resolution settings for export, but the vertical resolution setting is tied to the horizontal. Please allow them to be set independently, even though they should be tied by default.
Migrator's Notes:
- Is this still an issue? After The Great Analog Switch-Off of the 00s, all television formats changed from non-square pixels to square. Let's put it this way: in 20 years of working in European television, I haven't had to deal with this for at least 10-15 years...and heavens be praised! What a pain in the patoot that was!
- That said, unless anyone can name an example of non-square pixels still being used today, I will close this issue within the week.
- Guessing from the
Export as PNG…
's DPI settings, this used to be and option. Now since at least 1.0beta one of the DPIs is grayed out. All that's left to eliminate entirely the inactive DPI setting from the dialog... - Did I hit 10000 yet?