John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 31, 2008 12:54 AM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Screens vary. The screen on my laptop has about 130 dpi. Desktop flat >> panels will usually have a smaller value than that. For example, an old >> "15-inch" flat panel with 1024/768 pixels is actually about 12 inches >> wide, so dpi=85. The mpl default 'figure.dpi' of 80 is low; I doubt > > And it is not unusual to have a different DPI in the horizontal and > vertical directions. In order to support true physical sizes on the > screen, we would need to support different dpis in the two directions.
Does any other software actually do this? I have never seen anything with more than a single dpi setting. What is an example of a display with non-square pixels? And how non-square are they? I suspect this is not something that Alan really needs to worry about. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
