Good morning (evening for me, but that's beside the point)...
On this 8600 with two Apple monitors attached (no
adapters), screenshots consistently turn out to be
precisely 72.001 pixels-per-inch, in both OS 8.1 and
System 7.5.5 (on separate startup drives).
I thought 72.0 (not 72.001) ppi was supposed to be the
Apple-monitor standard, no? That's what it used to be,
on my previous Mac - same monitors, same card.
Even with no PCI card, this Mac still produces that
screen resolution. PRAM has been zapped a good dozen
times via TechTool (and no, I didn't "reinstall" the old
PRAM, either), but I have replaced the battery, held
the re-set button (the one inside the computer) for 60
seconds, and the usual slew of routine maintenaince
that would take too long to list everything here,
yadda yadda yadda etc etc blah blah blah.
What's even more strange, is that according the
TattleTech, my little second Apple monitor (an old 13"
RGB) supposedly has a screen resolution of:
72.85 ppi x 72.68 ppi !!
However, TattleTech shows - as one would expect - that
my main monitor (an Apple 15" multi-scan) is exactly
72.0 x 72.0 ppi.
I don't necessarily believe everything that TattleTech
says, however - it gets things wrong sometimes.
I'm *not* using any monitor-adapters and never have;
as far as I know, none are mandated (an Apple-to-Apple
adapter, is that even possible?)
Are these numbers normal? I never had anything like
this with my previous Mac, built in the same year as
this one, and using the same monitors.
Did Apple change their monitor-resolution standards
midway during the 1997 production year, or what?
At one time I thought it was some oddball PostScript
thing, but I don't use PostScript - no ATM, no
PostScript printers, etc.
Same results with both System 7.5.5 *and* Mac OS 8.1
(which are run from two separate startup drives).
Ordinarily I wouldn't care, but this thing has some
other monitor problems which I haven't yet been able
to resolve, and I wonder if this is related somehow.
Anybody else ever hear of 72.001 ppi screenshots on a
Mac, using Apple monitors?
TIA,
- JMarie
(not to be redundant, but as I wrote in my other
email a short time ago...
I'm now changing my sig from Jamie Marie to JMarie,
as I've been told that the former is already being
used by someone else, elsewhere - I have enough
"mistaken identity" by various people that don't
know me well, as it is. One would think that a
weird enough name like that wouldn't be owned by
very many people, but obviously that's not the
case. Ok, that's the last time I'll mention *that*.... :) )
.
(ignore Yahoo ad blurb which undoubtedly follows)
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