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Mikhail_Gorayeb
Mikhail_Gorayeb
Sep 7, 2022 3:47 AM UTC
Question

Work Resolution

Hello!

I am a new figma user, just wanted to know if there’s a way for me to adjust resolutions in terms of pixels per inch (PPI)?

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Dennis_N
Dennis_N
Power Member
Sep 7, 2022 7:12 AM UTC

What’s your use case?

Don’t you usually know the resolution you are designing for? 🤔

Personally I never had to care about PPI.

Theres a scale plugin where you can proportionally scale things percentage based, and in export settings you can also change pixel density to 0,5x, 0,75x, 1x, 1,5x, 2x, 3x, 4x etc if that helps.

Arman_TabibZadeh
Arman_TabibZadeh
Jun 22, 2024 12:18 PM UTC

I’m an android developer, and in android we use DP unit, which is calculated using ppi(is it same as the dpi here?).
The problem is that when our designers designs UIs, they use pixel unit, and as a developer, I need dp, since Figma doesn’t give us dp, it would be great to at least know( if not to manipulate) the ppi, so that I could convert px to dp.

Josh
Josh
Former Community Manager
Jun 24, 2024 9:00 PM UTC

Hi there, By default, assets exported as images from Figma have a DPI of 72. To calculate the DPI of an image exported at scale, multiple 72 by the chosen scale. For example, images exported at 2x have a DPI of 144. Images exported at 3x have a DPI of 216.

This is from the following help article: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/13402894554519-Export-formats-and-settings

Hopefully this helps with converting to dp

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