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Re: Slight problem w/ fonts
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Chris Hanson |
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Re: Slight problem w/ fonts |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:18:39 -0600 |
At 10:38 PM +0000 1/7/02, Nicola Pero wrote:
As a user and/or as an application writer, I don't understand how this is
supposed to work.
We draw lines and rectangles and fill colors using pixels.
Actually, as a Macintosh application developer I've always assumed
that I was drawing in points, and that it was the machine's job to
convert that to device space.
For a long time graphical human interfaces have made the simplifying
assumption that the device matrix is the identity matrix (i.e. one
point is one pixel) even though that wasn't true for print. They did
this for speed and because display density wasn't high enough for it
to matter. Now that many workstations have 120dpi displays, and
200dpi displays are on the market, it makes sense to revisit this
decision.
-- Chris
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- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, (continued)
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Fred Kiefer, 2002/01/06
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Nicola Pero, 2002/01/07
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Adam Fedor, 2002/01/07
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Nicola Pero, 2002/01/08
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Jeff Teunissen, 2002/01/08
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Dan Pascu, 2002/01/08
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Nicola Pero, 2002/01/08
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Jeff Teunissen, 2002/01/08
- Re: Slight problem w/ fonts,
Chris Hanson <=
Re: Slight problem w/ fonts, Jeff Teunissen, 2002/01/08