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- From: larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo)
- Subject: Re: Going beyond VGA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.210830.25585@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan18.154850.18115@walter.cray.com> <1993Jan19.104350.2870@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:08:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.104350.2870@dct.ac.uk> mcsbc4lrm@dct.ac.uk (Liam Myron) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.154850.18115@walter.cray.com>, roa@cray.com (Richard O. Ayres) writes:
- >> I am currently running Windows 3.1 with a standard (i.e. old) VGA board
- >> (640 x 480 pixels). I am thinking about buying a new board and monitor
- >> that will support super VGA (800 x 600) and 1024 x 768.
- >>
- >> My question is this: As the number of pixels goes up, will I see more
- >> of a document with the same resolution, or the same amount of a document
- >> with more resolution?
- >
- >What you are effectively doing when you move from VGA to SVGA is increasing
- >the area of your desktop. Because the desktop is larger, everything on it
- >(by this I mean icons and windows) appears slightly smaller than before so
- >that it can still fit on the same size monitor screen.
- >
- >Later in your posting you give an example using Write and ask if you
- >would see more text in SVGA mode. If you are using a fixed system font
- >then yes, you will. If you are using TrueType fonts then the chances are
- >you won't. Windows, doing it's best to be WYSIWYG, adjusts its display
- >so that text looks as close as possible to what will print out.
- >
- >If you were to use notepad or play solitaire, you would notice a
- >difference. In notepad (which uses a fixed size font) you would see more
- >text per full screen window and in solitaire the cards would look smaller.
- >The same is true for most of the other Windows apps: you will be able to
- >get more apps on a screen at one time in higher resolution modes.
- >
- >Incidently if you are planning to buy a 14" monitor and want to run in
- >1024*768 mode then, if at all possible, try the monitor/card combination
- >at this resolution before you buy. While lots of monitors can produce
- >1024*768 SVGA most of them aren't very good at it. Unless your monitor
- >and card give a very crisp image (and your eyesight is good) you'll
- >probably find this resolution will become uncomfortable to work in after
- >a while.
- >
- >Hope I've been of some help,
- >Liam.
- >--
- >| I've walked upon stranger roads than this one |
- >| In a world I used to know before - Genesis |
- >|______________________________________________________________________________|
- >| Liam R. Myron (Phoenix) | MCSBC4LRM @ |
- >| Dundee Institute of Technology | dct.ac.uk (InterNet) |
- >| Scotland, UK | uk.ac.dundee-tech (JANET) |
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- The above is generally true. The exception is that some programs allow you to
- adjust the size of things. Ami'Pro, for example, allows you to scale the size
- of the document on screen so in super VGA mode I see the same width as in VGA
- mode but the characters are larger and easier to read. As pointed out above,
- this is not true of solitaire and notepad. At first it was hard to get use to
- but now I have adjusted so that I hardly notice it.
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