: Are Gimp's template sizes correct? When I start a new project of a poster which is to be printed on an A4 paper, I select gimp's A4 dimension template, but as I recently found out, it is

@Jessie844

Probably it would be more usefull if you specified the dimensions of your document isntead of naming it "P" and "Q".

1) I'm posting the dimensions here. The A4 paper is 21.0 x 29.7 cm.

2) The gimp's A4 templete generates a file of 300 ppi.

3) 300ppi converted to ppcm are: 300/2.54 which does not give us an exact number. 118.11 ppcm.

4)
118.11 ppcm x 21 cm= 2480 px
118.11 ppcm x 29.7 cm = 3508 px

5) The generated image from the templete A4 in gimp is 2480 x 3508 px. Yes it is correct.

Any strange behavior on word importing files is that. A strange behavior on word when you import files.

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@Megan533

GIMP correctly informs the user on the image size based on the number of pixels and resolution metadata - as can be set on image->print size... menu option. It may be that some of the less used image formats have a buggy export of the resolution information, but that is certainly not the case for PNG or JPG.

As put in the comments above it is MS Word which is at fault, assuming fixed Pixel Per Inch information, regardless of the resolution recorded in the image headers.

As a work-around, got to the Image -> Scale image... dialog, and fixing your image size in inches or millimeters, change the resolution for one of those hardcoded by MS Word - which, as the comment from @Scott should be 72 or 96 ppi.
(Of course your image will have less pixels, and therefore less detail).

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