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Compass Roses
What the dpi tells is the size it will be in a document. For example, if I have a symbol of 1000x1000 pixels set as 100dpi and add it to a document (in a dpi-aware application), it will show up as 10 by 10 inches. If the exact same image was instead set to 250 dpi, it would be added to the document as a 4 by 4 inch image instead. That is the only thing it determines, how large should it be printed. It does not change the quality in any way whatsoever. Think of it as a hint for recommended print size, not a quality thing.
But when used in a program like CC3+ that doesn't operate with print sizing at all (as symbols are scaled to be the correct size you set them in your map, not to the real-world size of the paper), there will be no quality difference. A 1000x1000 image at 10 dpi is of no better quality than a 1000x1000 image at 4800 dpi.
(Of course, that applies to the image side of things, for the hardware side of things, a printer capable of printing 1200 dpi is better quality than one that prints at 300 dpi)
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Compass Roses
What Julian says is correct, but just to add one thing; just ignore that number entirely. It doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the image. Or put differently, there are two ways to know the quality, either you know the resolution in pixels, or you know the dpi AND the display size (inches). While sometimes used to make sure things is right sized for a computer screen, the dpi is really a value only appreciated by people who does professional printing and print layout.
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Where to find map file data in an XP
These aren't values stored in the map that can be simply accessed.
The Drawing area size is found by calculating the extents of the current drawing. CC3+ drawing doesn't actually have a fixed size (as you may have noticed, you can easily draw far outside the map border with the basic tools. So the size you see in this dialog is just the current extents of the entities in your map. Finding the extents is basically just walk the list of entities and grab all the coordinates there and just pick out the biggest and smallest ones, these will describe your extent.
As for the pixel size, CC3+ doesn't care about pixels at all. The value you refer to is just whatever value you happened to put into the export dialog the last time you used it, but it has nothing at all to do with the current map. And any CC3+ map can be exported to any pixel size, so to calculate in relation to the export size you must know what resolution the user intends to export in. Now, usually, when you export battle maps for VTT use, you would use whatever number of pixels per map square as that particular VTT system prefer. I don't know what foundry want, and it probably can use different values, but that is the value you want, not whatever is stored in the CC3+ dialog. And there is really no way for CC3+ to tell you this since it doesn't work in pixel space. But you could assume some standard pixels/square, for example if you plan on exporting the map as 100 pixels per 5' square, that relates to 20 pixels per map unit.
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Compass Roses
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Birdseye continental query
How are you selecting the background? Due to the fact that the background is a big rectangle with the water on top, you can't select it where it meets the water since that would cause you to select the the water instead.
The easiest is probably to just temporarily hide ALL sheets except BACKGROUND, then change it, then show those sheets again.





