Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (04/30/91)
How many dpi is the iris screen, and does it change with different monitors ? I am using 118 dpi mode TeX fonts, but they don't look quite right. Does anyone have a mf mode setting that they like for the iris screen ? I will post an improved (slightly) dvitex when I get it working the way I like ! I finally got mf to work, so I can make fonts galore in all sizes for every printer and screen I have modedefs for Metafont. Cheers! dan. | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Research Associate | | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> |
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (05/01/91)
In article <9104292131.AA19346@karron.med.nyu.edu>, Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes: |> |> How many dpi is the iris screen, and does it change with different monitors ? |> |> I am using 118 dpi mode TeX fonts, but they don't look quite right. |> |> Does anyone have a mf mode setting that they like for the iris screen ? |> For the 4D series on a 19" monitor the resolution is just a hair under 96 dpi. With a 14" monitor on a PI the resolution is about 108 dpi. When in doubt get out a tape measure, measure the scanned area of the monitor and divide by the number of pixels. Our monitors are adjusted so they have the same scanned area. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein
blbates@AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) (05/01/91)
While we are on the subject, could you use: getgdesc(GD_XMMAX); /* Horizontal size of the screen in millimeters */ getgdesc(GD_YMMAX); /* Vertical size of the screen in millimeters */ getgdesc(GD_XPMAX); /* Horizontal size of the screen in pixels */ getgdesc(GD_YPMAX); /* Vertical size of the screen in pixels */ to get the screen resolution. How does the machine know the monitor size? Brent L. Bates Phone:(804) 864-2854 NASA-Langley Research Center FAX:(804) 864-6792 M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov