Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-05 Thread Tomaž Vajngerl
Hi, On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Chris Sherlock wrote: > There were a series of patches that handled hi-DPI displays in 2014 that > Keith did for us and that were pushed by Kendy: Yes, and I continued later on with the patches when I got a laptop with HiDPI

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-05 Thread Chris Sherlock
> On 5 Feb 2016, at 9:29 PM, Tomaž Vajngerl wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Chris Sherlock > wrote: >> There were a series of patches that handled hi-DPI displays in 2014 that >> Keith did for us and that were pushed by Kendy:

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-04 Thread Chris Sherlock
On 5 Feb 2016, at 6:37 AM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: >> >> Example: >> You have painted an ellipse (vector data). User chooses 'convert to Bitmap' >> and saves the file. On Mac you will have a

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-04 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Chris, On Wednesday, 2016-02-03 23:27:22 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > If nobody has any objections, I can add an environment variable that forces > it to pick up the actual screen resolution. > > Something like OSX_FORCEBACKINGCOORDS Please prefix with LIBO_..., so

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-04 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > > Example: > You have painted an ellipse (vector data). User chooses 'convert to Bitmap' > and saves the file. On Mac you will have a >200 DPI bitmap, Just as a reminder. the 'DPI' on mac depend dynamically on the

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-04 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi SOS, Am 03.02.2016 um 16:46 schrieb SOS: It is relevant. If you have a vector graphic and it gets converted to bitmap, the DPI from the system is used to define the resulting pixel size. Conversion to bitmap happens more often than it might seem. Examples: - user chooses to do so

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread Chris Sherlock
On 3 Feb 2016, at 7:24 PM, SOS wrote: > > > On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: >> On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: >>> The other question is: why would we not want to the actual DPI and >>> screen resolution? >> My understanding is that, historically,

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread SOS
On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: The other question is: why would we not want to the actual DPI and screen resolution? My understanding is that, historically, the OS provided a function to query DPI but what gets returned from

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread Chris Sherlock
> On 3 Feb 2016, at 11:08 PM, Alexander Thurgood > wrote: > > Le 03/02/2016 00:52, Chris Sherlock a écrit : > > Hi Chris, > > >> Hi all, >> >> I’ve mentioned this briefly to Tor on IRC, but thought I’d email the mailing >> list and a general enquiry. >> >> I

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi, comments inline Am 03.02.2016 um 12:35 schrieb SOS: On 3/02/2016 11:32, Chris Sherlock wrote: On 3 Feb 2016, at 7:24 PM, SOS wrote: On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: The other question is: why would we not

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread SOS
On 3/02/2016 11:32, Chris Sherlock wrote: On 3 Feb 2016, at 7:24 PM, SOS wrote: On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: The other question is: why would we not want to the actual DPI and screen resolution? My

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread Chris Sherlock
On 3 Feb 2016, at 10:35 PM, SOS wrote: > > > On 3/02/2016 11:32, Chris Sherlock wrote: >> On 3 Feb 2016, at 7:24 PM, SOS wrote: >>> >>> On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > The other question is:

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/02/2016 00:52, Chris Sherlock a écrit : Hi Chris, > Hi all, > > I’ve mentioned this briefly to Tor on IRC, but thought I’d email the mailing > list and a general enquiry. > > I noticed that we don’t actually get the “true” DPI for OS X, nor the actual > resolution - at least on high

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread SOS
On 3/02/2016 13:01, Chris Sherlock wrote: On 3 Feb 2016, at 10:35 PM, SOS wrote: On 3/02/2016 11:32, Chris Sherlock wrote: On 3 Feb 2016, at 7:24 PM, SOS wrote: On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: The

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-03 Thread SOS
hallo Armin new comments inline on your remarks On 3/02/2016 14:10, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi, comments inline Am 03.02.2016 um 12:35 schrieb SOS: On 3/02/2016 11:32, Chris Sherlock wrote: On 3 Feb 2016, at 7:24 PM, SOS wrote: On 3/02/2016 3:55, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed,

DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-02 Thread Chris Sherlock
- the size of things obviously double (or change to whatever scale the screen resolution makes it). I guess I was wondering what the impact is, or what challenges have we had with not getting the *actual* DPI and screen resolution on OS X builds? Has anyone noticed anything odd when they are using a Mac

Re: DPI and screen resolution on OS X

2016-02-02 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:52 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > The other question is: why would we not want to the actual DPI and > screen resolution? My understanding is that, historically, the OS provided a function to query DPI but what gets returned from such function was not always accurate (or