On 7/9/2026 9:30 PM, Jim Diamond via ntg-context wrote:
I would have guessed it was just a "me" problem with my archaic AR, but the
unnamed person running Windows has (I presume) an up-to-date,
as-good-as-it-gets version. So I'm not sure (older) applies here.
i actually don't know how old my acrobat is ... once it started offering
to make summaries of a pdf and/or do watever it likes with it i stopped
starting it up
Maybe here: https://winworldpc.com/product/acrobat-reader/1
oh, soo small ...
The few times I bothered doing a comparison, AR rendered thin lines better
than anything I put it up against. Another reason for me to keep using
this archaic program.
so what is your screen resolution, 640x480 ?
My screen is about 141 DPI. Not super high-res, but a whole lot better
than those "crimes against humanity" 96 DPI screens.
interesting is that 1920x1200 often (on windows) looks quite ok (but
depending on where i dock the laptop I have upto 4K so various
resolutions and sizes, these (even older) monitors run forever)
In the most ideal world, ConTeXt would somehow trap evil images inside
their own little sandbox, and not let their bad parts corrupt the rest of
the document. However, in the world we live in, that may not be possible.
So I have no reason to think ConTeXt is misbehaving.
You can always force a good old 320 horizontal pixel resolution experience:
\startMPpage
triplet bm ; bm := loadbytemapfromfile(3, "PageLayout.png") ;
lmt_filter [
source = 3,
target = 4,
% filter = "sharpen:5",
% filter = "gaussianblur",
% filter = "sharpen:5,gaussianblur",
filter = "gaussianblur,sharpen:5",
] ;
draw bytemap 4 xsized 20mm ;
\stopMPpage
(and then spend an evening writing your own filters that you can plug in)
Hans
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