units in um
Hi,
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 15:28 -0700, dorai iyer wrote:
I am new to the world of gimp and am interested in it because of its
ability to do layers. My work is mostly related to microscopy. I tried
using the unit editor however, i could not get it to calibrate the
image for the different magnifications as it is all based of inches.
Typically the optical microscopes have set mangifications where for
each magnification there is pixels per um. Has anyone implemented a
modification of the unitrc to use um instead of inches as the basis.
Is there a way to change the unitrc to refelct the pixels/um.
There is nothing inches-specific about the unit editor. What exactly is
your problem with it?
You might however be running into the resolution limits of GIMP. To work
around that, I suggest that you use millimeters where you would use
micrometers. You will have to deal with an extra magnification factor of
1000 then, but that's not much of a problem.
Sven