Automatically apply scaling factor to images pasted from clipboard

It looks like screenshot tools encode some information about DPI into the PNG files. e.g. if I upload a screenshot from my high-dpi macOS environment to https://www.metadata2go.com/, I see

If I turn off HiDpi, then those metadata fields seem to disappear from the file.

Do you see something similar on Windows @gerhard? If so, maybe there’s a way for us to read it in JS and make a guess about the pixel density.

I also came across this gist which might be useful.

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