What's the difference between "Zoom" and "Scale" in GIMP?

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Published on 2010-06-10T10:04:42Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 5:14 UTC
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I found there are 2 ways to change the image size in GIMP.

One is "Zoom", another is "Scale".

What is the difference of the 2 ways?

I do see some difference when I zoom (or scale) a TIFF to 600%. The result of zoom is more clear than scale.

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