Hi Ryan, Are you sure it's a bug ?
No desktop application has any way of knowing the exact screen size, since it may always be altered outside it's control, e.g. locally in the monitor. MIPro deducts some default value for the screen size, but that's in any case just a rough approximation. If you want high accuracy you need to set the correct screen size in Settings/Options (or v.v.) under System settings. If you enter these, the scale calculation should be as accurate as you can get it. My MIPro settings are the default size since the displayed scale's not important to me, but when I turn the setting on it displays 33.8667 x 27.0933 (cm). When I measure it with a ruler it's actually just 31.4 x 22.9, i.e. a mean difference of 12% on the diagonal, which looks very much like your discapency. Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V. Nielsen GisPro, Denmark http://www.gispro.dk/ http://hjem.get2net.dk/lars-online/ WGS84: 10.20'40"E 55.20'20"N ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MapInfo-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: MI-L Layout Scale Display Bug in MI 7.0 > Hello listers, > > I found an interesting bug in MapInfo Pro 7.0. While measuring the actual > scale of a layout on my monitor and the scale on the actual print, I found > MapInfo wasn't correctly displaying the layout after I had used the 'View > Actual Size' command. Holding a ruler up to the screen and comparing it to > the ruler in MapInfo, I found they matched when I set the zoom level to: > 85%. > > I am using a 19" monitor set to 1152 X 864, High Color (16 bit), 85 Hertz > The print size was 38.67" X 29" > > I don't know if this is a universal problem, just wanted you all to be aware > that MapInfo 7.0 might not be showing you the actual scale of your layouts > when you tell it to. From now on, I will be telling it to zoom to 85% > instead of asking it to zoom to actual scale. > > Cheers, and have a happy new year! > > Ryan Morgan > Aerials Express > www.aerialsexpress.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 4684 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 4685
