At 2:29 PM +0100 on 3/6/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>Does not matter --- we can fake it if they don't.
>
>Anthony,
>
> I'm not so sure... on the Mac it depends on mucking around with the numer
>and denom parameters to StdText() and such things ... it really would need
>to be supported by these other platforms, or we might get ugly pixelized
>text (and don't forget printing).
Render larger, shrink on copy. Avoids pixelization.
>
> And finally, I might be mistaken, but some platforms don't support scaling
>images that are copied using their equivalent to CopyBits(). I think there
>were some Unix dialects, maybe even Linux, which means faking this might
>really get hard.
If there is no scaling copybits, we'd probably be writing one anyway.
It's not that hard to do one. And beating CopyBit's is not that hard
either, since the CopyBits algorithms was designed for black and white
on processors that are now used in my graphics calculator :)
