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The Image Properties Dialogue always shows the print size in millimetres even though I've set the print size to inches and the ppi/inch.

It annoys me to no end as my mind works best with inches.


How do I get it to change this?

Thank you,
Angel

Gimp  is using your general system settings for this.  Computer systems define a "locale" which is a set of settings telling what language to use for the interface, how to display dates and numbers, what the monetary unit is, what the print paper size is, ... and what the measurement units are.

So to switch to imperial units you have to tell Gimp that you are in the last country that uses imperial units, and its locale is en_US (English-USofA). So, on my Linux:

export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8

Lo and behold:



Your local Windows expert will tell you how you can change this setting, just for Gimp or for everything.

Otherwise, Image >  Print size will also show the print size, and  you can set the unit by yourself.

(08-18-2023, 07:41 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: [ -> ]Gimp  is using your general system settings for this.  Computer systems define a "locale" which is a set of settings telling what language to use for the interface, how to display dates and numbers, what the monetary unit is, what the print paper size is, ... and what the measurement units are.

So to switch to imperial units you have to tell Gimp that you are in the last country that uses imperial units, and its locale is en_US (English-USofA). So, on my Linux:

export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8

Lo and behold:

Your local Windows expert will tell you how you can change this setting, just for Gimp or for everything.

Otherwise, Image >  Print size will also show the print size, and   you can set the unit by yourself.

On your Linux you didn't mention where you put "export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8", which might be important to Linux users or maybe they will just know what to do with it? 

"Otherwise, Image > Print size will also show the print size, and you can set the unit by yourself."

Even though I did set the Print Size to inches, the Image Properties still would only show it in metric, even on a restart of GIMP.

It was useful to know it was my computer not GIMP that I needed to make the change in. That helped a LOT!     

This is the link that showed me how to do that and instructions are there for MAC OS too.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/offi...68d4550d82

Image properties now shows the size in pixels and inches.

Thank you!