Eric: I have never seen any software which dealt with non uniform DPI settings, although that is always a possibility. And all the displays I have ever worked on/with have been the same for both H and V. ( I am a display engineer with over 25 years experience in CRT displays and a bit in flat panel). From what I have seen, the RGB trio in any display is set up so that the horizontal pitch is the same as the vertical pitch. In a flat panel the R, G and B are 3 times taller than they are wide so that when you place R, G and B together they form a square. I don't think that Matplotlib or Alan needs to worry about anything outside those boundaries.
Wayne Eric Firing wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
