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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Picture sizes & font point size in HTML output from TMG (6.0)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:15:54 -0700
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On or about 6/2/2005 12:15 PM a carrier pigeon from David S. Flower delivered:
>This is my first attempt at outputting from TMG (6.0) to HTML and I'm
>having trouble.
>
> 1. I can't seem to control the size of a photo that is tied to a person
> as a exhibit.
> It fills up the full page even though it comes out as 3.3" wide in
> MSW (2000) document.
> I set the original size a 3.3" in Photo Shop (6.0) before saving as a
> JPG file.

Web browsers normally do NOT make use of DPI information that may
be stored in an image format. They typically display pixel for pixel.

Presuming Windows standard assumptions, most monitors are
considered to be 96DPI. A 3.3" photo, at 96DPI, is only 317 PIXELS wide.
Most JPEGs tend to be created at 150 to 300 DPI, but if you set to a
particular /inch/ measurement, you could have ANYTHING for DPI -- my
digicam images are 7.6"@300DPI. Without resampling that, setting it to 3.8"
(half) would make for a 600DPI header, but still leaves the image 2280
PIXELS wide.

> 2. Where do I set the font point size? It is quite a bit larger in HTML
> than what I selected for
> the size to a file.

In your browser, normally... Classic HTML has five to seven font
sizes... numbered 1 to 5(7). Typically, unspecified text is size 3(4), and
changes are indicated by tags of <font size="+1"> (or -1, or any other
relative value). In your browser preferences, you may be able to specify
what the BASE font size is. Just take into account that what you set in
your browser may not be what is set in "my" browser. (HTML is a /content/
markup, not a /layout/ markup -- the browser is supposed to figure out how
to display a "paragraph" or a "header"... Cascading style sheets and newer
browsers do allow a bit more layout control).

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