The new widescreen monitors are the bane of my (programming) life: every screen format has to be resized with the out-of-whack dimensions in mind. And it is is amazing how many users are completely oblivious of the fact that their fonts are stretched out of proportion and that they sometimes cannot see all of the form!
Any other IT guys found a resizer that is truly competent at this? I use one which usually does a reasonable job, but it sometimes gets bamboozled too. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann Sanfedele Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 8:57 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: When others view our work on line - Aspect ratio woes It has happened a few times now -- I've been in front of someone elses computer where the owner has a wider view - don't know the numbers - but if you were sitting in front of one of these monitors, just looking at the wallpaper / desktop screen , the Google Chrome Icon and the Firefox Icon that are normally circles appear as ovals... And everywhere you go on line where there are images - unless they were created stretched, are distorted OF course I saw this when I wanted to show some of my work to someone who had one of these monitors... I thought there must be some simple way to adjust the view without changing _everything_ In two cases, the owners couldnt recognize what was happening.... a couple of times it was someone's TV that was set wrong and that WAS easy to fix... Here is the thing... Shouldn't the pages we have online be set in such away that the browsers recognize the aspect ratio at which the images were created? or the entire page? One friend of mine didnt understand what I was talking about until we looked at a photo of him with his wife that had been scanned from a print and they saw how fat they had suddenly become :-) and they did see the difference between the photo of I use on my cards and how that photo looked on my website... but it never occured to them that the typeface on the screen and on the printout from their own printer was different! seems to me if people are acquiring the latest technology with the wide screens set up so you can watch HD tv and films shot in the "Cinemascope" proportions that the switch should be made easier and pointed out whenever the new equipment is purchased. end of rant... but IS there a quick way to toggle ??? ann the perplexed http://annsan.smugmug.com p.s. is there a little guide that shows the aspect ratio in numbers and next to an exaple in graphic form somewhere? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
