DPI

[Andu]

Before upgrading, if I published a PDF and had the image DPI set at 300, the PDF also respected that resolution. Now when I publish, it disregards it, and I have no way to set the DPI for PDF files in Pixelamator.

help?

[Andu]

If it helps, I uploaded the PDF files exported with the same setting by the old pixelmator, and the latest version. To see the difference, open both and Click CMD+0.

The new Pixelmator basically ignores the DPI entirely, and it makes the file unusable for print.

https://filetransfer.io/data-package/0ukSAzNn#link

[Andu]

Finally. Why don't you guys add the same feature for DPI as Affinity Designer has when publishing PDFs?

[Andu]

To be honest, I'm confused. Does the old Pixelmator that publishes the PDF at the right size (when uploaded to KDP it looks OK) use the right DPI? Or it just makes the PDF smaller?

The new one clearly doesn't use the right DPI, and doesn't make the PDF smaller either.

[David Copeland]

If you are command-line savvy, this is what I have done as a workaround:

1. Install ImageMagick https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#macosx
2. Export your Pixelmator image as a TIFF (e.g. image.tiff)
3.

convert image.tiff -density «DPI»x«DPI» image.pdf

4. Note that the value for «DPI» must be what you have set in Pixelmator. For example, mine is at 600 DPI so my invocation would be

convert image.tiff -density 600x600 image.pdf

This produces a quite large PDF since it essentially embeds the bitmap, but it does work insomuch as both Finder and KDP report the dimensions properly.