nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) (03/21/91)
Here's a question for someone out there who owns FrameMaker and one of those monitors that can display several different pixel densities. QuickDraw assumes every coordinate is in points (actually, pixels). FrameMaker appears to generally scale things by (pixelDensity/72pointsPerInch) so that an inch-long line segment on an 82dpi monitor is 82 pixels long rather than 72. Not having a monitor that's radically different from 72dpi (69 and 75 are too close to tell), I'd be interested in knowing whether FrameMaker gets the scaling "right" on everything: fonts, object graphics, bitmap graphics, etc. It's obvious it tries on bitmap graphics when viewing a 72dpi bitmap on a 75 dpi monitor. What does FrameMaker do on one of those 100dpi or 144dpi monitors that Sigma or someone makes? Maybe one of these days QuickDraw will evolve into a resolution-independent environment. Charles Allen Internet: cca@physics.purdue.edu Department of Physics HEPnet: purdnu::allen, fnal::cca Purdue University Bitnet: cca@fnal.bitnet West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396 talknet: 317/494-9776