Constant DPI regardless of resolution

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jul 1 14:55:40 PDT 2008


Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 20:39 +0100, David De La Harpe Golden a
écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > The DPI you see in software in the DPI it controls. Any auto-scaling
> > done by the hardware behind its back is beyond the software control.
> > 
> > What you really want with a DFP is to always operate it at native
> > resolution without this kind of scaling,
> 
> I'd agree, but note that one of Nikos' use cases was e.g. using  a
> vmware x server, which appears as a window on a real display. In that
> case, when the window is resized (by changing the _virtual_ screen
> size),

I'd expect wmware to decalre a new physical size automatically when that
happens (since that's its actual behaviour)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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