Re: Slight problem w/ fonts

[Chris Hanson]

At 10:38 PM +0000 1/7/02, Nicola Pero wrote:
> As a user and/or as an application writer, I don't understand how this is
> supposed to work.
>
> We draw lines and rectangles and fill colors using pixels.

Actually, as a Macintosh application developer I've always assumed 
that I was drawing in points, and that it was the machine's job to 
convert that to device space.

For a long time graphical human interfaces have made the simplifying 
assumption that the device matrix is the identity matrix (i.e. one 
point is one pixel) even though that wasn't true for print.  They did 
this for speed and because display density wasn't high enough for it 
to matter.  Now that many workstations have 120dpi displays, and 
200dpi displays are on the market, it makes sense to revisit this 
decision.

  -- Chris

--
Chris Hanson                      |  Email: cmh@bDistributed.com
bDistributed.com, Inc.            |  Phone: +1-847-372-3955
Making Business Distributed       |  Fax:   +1-847-589-3738
http://bdistributed.com/          |  Personal Email: cmh@mac.com