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- From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
- Subject: Re: PowerPC/060 macs
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- HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky) writes:
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- >Improving the DPI for WYSIWYG, though, is very difficult. Fonts
- >could handle it if they were rendered from outlines, like with ATM
- >and TrueType. Object graphics could handle it. Ask for a 2-inch
- >circle and it will put down a 2-inch circle. But what of bitmaps?
- >Icons? Etc. They would all appear shrunken since they store a series
- >of a distinct number of dots only.
-
- This happens with Postscript already. The solution is to image the
- original bitmap at a high resolution (say 300 dpi), store that
- everywhere, and scale down/up the bitmap when you need to draw it on a
- different resolution device.
-
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- Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu
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