When setting impossible physical size (for resolution), change the resolution, not the requested size
Hello everyone,
When I needed to create a cover for my book, I set the canvas width to 10.4325 inches, but Gimp automatically resizes it to 10.433 inches. I discussed this issue here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Gimp-Automatically-Resizes
The helpful users of the Gimp forum told me it was likely a matter of presumably arithmetic rounding, the issue seeming to have something to do with Gimp being a raster / bitmap editor. As a non-technical user, I had too much difficulty understanding why I couldn't really just set the canvas size to what I needed it to be, I did infer Gimp has difficulties with so many decimal points in the canvas size.
This in effect disallowed me to use Gimp to create a cover for my Amazon KDP publication. Photoshop did not have this issue, and so it seems to me Gimp is missing out on succeeding in a competitively important facet. I greatly want Gimp to prevail, as I sympathize deeply with the Open Source mentality, and Gimp simply being a wonderful product (I donated :-]).
I can only imagine how difficult it is to program code, especially for a sophisticated project such as Gimp. However, seeing the great skill of its developer community and the complexity already attained, I believe this issue should definitely be able to be resolved, so that covers can be designed with Gimp. In the forum thread mentioned above, some advice was given, but from a non-technical user end point of view, it was simply too difficult to employ Gimp for my purpose. I hope that my request will contribute to the improvement of Gimp.
Kindly,
Avii