Re: Distorted Vertical and Horizontal Rulers

["wood_n_rose" <wood_n_rose@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In gimpwin-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Howard Larson <hblarson43@...>
wrote:
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> Open File/Preferences/Display and verify the horizontal and vertical
monitor resolutions are equal.
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> Howard Larson
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: wood_n_rose <wood_n_rose@...>
> To: gimpwin-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2008 6:40:58 PM
> Subject:  Distorted Vertical and Horizontal Rulers
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> I'm using GIMP 2.4.6 and previously 2.4.5 with windows Vista with all
> updates. I can open an image and it is not distorted but the rulers in
> the margins are distorted,not the same, the vertical ruler is not
> proportional to the horizontal ruler. In other words the vertical
> ruler from 0-500 is longer than the horizontal ruler from 0-500. This
> is no big deal but when I try to select an area of a photo for
> cropping with the rectangular selection tool set to 'fixed ratio' of
> 4:6 (for a 4x6 print) the selection is actually more like 4x8. This is
> mighty strange and I haven't a clue what's causing it or how to fix
> the problem (if there is a fix)
> Thanks for any help.
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Immediately after posting the question I did as you said and, yep, the
resolution was incorrectly set.  Wow, do I feel like a dummy!


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