[OS X TeX] Creating a dvi file

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.04.2007 um 15:46 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> I got the impression the default units were TeX's big points (1/72  
> inch) for identify, and pixels for sips, and I thought the two  
> units were identical on the Mac by default.

Oh yes! I did not think of this, I have my own script that uses sips  
and computes the big points etc., because the sips command is too  
long to handle easily in a shell. I'll attach an excerpt to this eMail.

The pixel files (PNG, TIFF, GIF, JPEG) record their size in pixels.  
These values are easily read from standard positions in the file.  
With the picture's resolution in x and y, of course also recorded in  
the file, one can compute the actual size in mm, inches, big points.

> Or does it depend on the chosen resolution in System Preferences >  
> Monitor?

In System Preferences you cannot set the resolution of your system's  
screen(s), only its (their) size in pixels. For Apple 72 DPI is /the/  
standard (did you never adjust the screen's resolution in Mozilla etc?).


BTW, I have a 144 DPI PNG file that ImageMagick's identify does not  
compute correctly ...


#!/bin/csh -f
#
#       @(#) size.csh
#               created: 2005-06-16 {22:33:44}
#           last update: Time-stamp: <2007-04-17 22:05:59 pete>
#               version: 1.25
#
# Copyright © Pete, Peter_Dyballa at Web dot DE, 2007. Public domain/ 
Free software.
#
# Tell me the size of a picture!
#
set      i=1
set values=`sips --getProperty pixelWidth --getProperty pixelHeight -- 
getProperty dpiWidth --getProperty dpiHeight "$1" | tr -d :`
#
while ( $i < $#values )
     set val=$values[$i]
     switch( $val )
         case pixelWidth:
             @ i++
             set X=$values[$i]
             breaksw
         case pixelHeight:
             @ i++
             set Y=$values[$i]
             breaksw
         case dpiWidth:
             @ i++
             set dX=$values[$i]
             breaksw
         case dpiHeight:
             @ i++
             set dY=$values[$i]
             breaksw
         default:
             @ i++
             breaksw
     endsw
end
set  width=`echo "${X} * 72 / $dX" | bc -s`
set height=`echo "${Y} * 72 / $dY" | bc -s`
# for mm
#set  width=`echo "scale = 3; $X * 72.27 / $dX / 25.4" | bc -s`
#set height=`echo "scale = 3; $Y * 72.27 / $dY / 25.4" | bc -s`
echo "Your image is ${width} × ${height} (width × heigh) TeX big  
points in size."
#72.27 / 25.4 = 2.845275


--
Greetings

   Pete

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found  
ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
                                           (Blaise Pascal)



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