[reportlab-users] renderPM can't change resolution

[Robin Becker]

In article <20031201203008.GA27630%pivoluska@matfyz.cz>, Matej Pivoluska
<pivoluska@matfyz.cz> writes
>Hello,
>
>I want to render some custom plots for OpenOffice.org documents with reportlab. 
>I written small PyQt application for simplify creation of these plots. 
>
>And the problem is:
>

I've been meaning to fix the dpi stuff for about two years and now I
think I have. Setting dpi to 144 seems to double the linear sizes so I
guess it's working. You'll need some memory though :)

>renderPM module seems to be broken when it has to render image in other
>resolution than 72 dpi. I can set any resolution througt dpi parameter but it
>the saved image size is always the same. And when I open the image in Gimp I
>can see resolution 72 dpi in info dialog.
>
>I use renderPM renderer to get bitmap output. It is fixed at 72 dpi. I tested
>it with drawToString and drawToFile methods.
>
>
><snip>
>        from reportlab.graphics import renderPM
>        renderPM.drawToFile(drawing, 'wow.png', fmt='PNG', dpi = 300 )
><snip>
>        img = renderPM.drawToString( drawing, fmt = 'BMP',  dpi = 300 )
>
>
>mP
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-- 
Robin Becker