When I display a JPEG in my WPF application (using the following code), it is shown significantly smaller than if I open the JPEG in the Windows Picture Viewer at actual size.
I’ve drilled into the properties of my ImageSource at runtime and my image has:
- a DPI of 219
- a Height of 238.02739726027397
- a Width of 312.54794520547944
- a PixelHeight of 543
- and a PixelWidth of 713
When I use a screen ruler to measure the WPF display of the image, I get approx. 313×240 pixels (which if I could positiont the ruler perfectly would probably be equal to the Width and Height that the ImageSource is reporting.).
My gut tells me this has something to do with WPF’s use of device independent units (instead of pixels) but I can’t make sense of it, and I still need to know how to display the image at the ‘actual’ size of 543×713 in my application.
<Window xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation' xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' Height='300' Width='300'> <StackPanel> <Image Source='Image15.jpg' Stretch='None' /> </StackPanel> </Window>
Use a DPI of 96. WPF is scaling your image based on the size in inches, while the image viewer is displaying pixels. On most Windows systems, the screen resolution is assumed to be 96 DPI, so using that in your image will result in a one-to-one translation.