svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky) (10/27/87)
Is it possible to get a true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You
Get) paint program and/or hardware for the PC without shelling
out big bucks? The main problem I am having is with rotation,
which is a must for my purposes. When I rotate text 90 degrees
for example, the "unsquare" aspect ratio of the monitor distorts
the text. Is this true for all monitors/adapters/paint programs?
Even if the software can scale the image when it prints it so
that it comes out "square", I don't want to have to print it over
and over just to see what it really looks like. Am I going to
have to buy a Macintosh? Thanks in advance.
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Bill Svirsky, Citicorp+TTI, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Work phone: 213-450-9111 x2597
svirsky@ttidca.tti.com | ...!{philabs,psivax,trwrb,csun}!ttidca!svirskyjoel@peora.UUCP (10/29/87)
In article <1397@ttidca.TTI.COM>, svirsky@ttidca (William Svirsky) writes: > Is it possible to get a true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You > Get) paint program and/or hardware for the PC without shelling > out big bucks? The main problem I am having is with rotation, > which is a must for my purposes. When I rotate text 90 degrees > for example, the "unsquare" aspect ratio of the monitor distorts > the text. Is this true for all monitors/adapters/paint programs? I am told that if you have a monitor/display card/paint program that support 640x480 or 800x600 resolutions you get square pixels, because of the 4:3 aspect ratio of normal monitors. I upgraded to such a con- figuration recently, but haven't checked it myself. I'll give it a try and see if it actually works. By the way Windows really looks neat in 800x600 with 16 colors. -- Joel Upchurch @ CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company) Southern Development Center 2486 Sand Lake Road/ Orlando, Florida 32809/ (305)850-1040 {decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd, akgua!codas}!peora!joel