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- From: IBY236@URIACC.URI.EDU (Andy Kress)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: The IIgs 640x200 Graphics mode
- Message-ID: <9209041441.AA22348@apple.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 14:22:17 GMT
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- Situation:
- Ever notice in AWGS that a Word Processing documents take up the
- full width of the screen? Or that in GWIII you cant fit the whole
- width of the the document on the screen due to the tools on the left?
- Now...have you ever used a Mac with a 640x480 screen and notice
- that documents have lots of extra room one the left or right?
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- Why should this be???? We have the same horizontal resolution!
-
- Well I did some tests just to see why this is and here is what I
- came up with. I went on a Mac and made an MSWord window the width of
- the screen and made it roughly 175 pixels down. (The window was 639x175)
- Then I filled one line on the window with HHHH's in Courier 12point.
- Then I screen captured the window and GIFed it. I unGIFed it on the GS
- and it looked just as it did on the Mac except it was elongated. (We are
- all used to this by now!) The only major difference was that the ruler
- was smaller...Meaning if you take a ruler and measure the ruler on the
- screen you will notice the MSWord ruler's inches are smaller than actual
- inches. Now if you do that same thing in AWGS the inches line up.
- This is why you get less room on the GS screen horizontally! On the
- GS there are more pixels used to represent an actual inch. Is there anyway
- around this? I mean we are alreay used to the verticle being off who cares
- if the horizontal is if we get more room to work with?
- The wierd thing was that I typed HHHH's useing the GS under the HHH's
- I typed on the Mac and they were the SAME EXACT WIDTH! So on the Mac you
- get less characters per inch! This doesnt make much sense to me....If any
- one can comment I'd love to hear it. And if anyone can get GWIII to use
- these "smaller" inches Ill praise the ground you walk on!
- BTW....If anyone is interested in seeing the graphic file I used
- to see this just send me a note and Ill pass it on.
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- | Andy Kress | Univ. of Rhode Island | IBY236 AT URIACC.URI.EDU |
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