Ok, I should have clarified that I have read that bit of the tutorial many
times and it doesn't help a lot. In particular:
- the two systems that are displaying it differently have the same
font size, different screen resolutions (1280x1024 vs 1152x864) but the same
pixels-per-inch settings. And strangely, the installer box appears
physically larger on the smaller screen (that is, the box is a greater
number of pixels across on the 1152-wide display than it is on the 1280-wide
display - quite a few more).
- The bitmaps I'm using more or less conform to the specifications.
There are big letters which are part of the logo, and it's a pain if we
can't use that. No dithering or chequered backgrounds.
Has no one else had this problem? Or what do people do for their graphics?
Use incredibly basic 2 colour images?
Steve
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From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 5:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bitmap scaling
>From the tutorial:
If you want to change the bitmaps or icons, just do so in the Binary
directory. The front page bitmap (named Dialog.bmp here) is a 503 by 314
pixel BMP while the top banner bitmap has 500 by 63 pixels. But note that
Windows Installer might stretch or shrink these bitmaps if the system font
and display resolution settings of the user ask for a scaling of the whole
interface. To avoid ugly scaling artefacts, make sure you use appropriate
bitmaps. Avoid thin lines supposed to look uniform across the picture, never
incorporate text into the bitmaps (letters in logos are OK but small text
meant to be read is not). And, above all, avoid dithered areas and checkered
backgrounds, those might look very awkward when scaled. To get an idea,
experiment with various scaling factors in your picture editor, making sure
you turn off sophisticated algorithms like bicubic sampling; Windows will
only use plain stretching and shrinking.
On 1/19/07, Steve Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm having a problem where the bitmap I choose as the background of a WiX-UI
setup is getting scaled differently on different machines. It looks fine on
mine (1152x864), but badly pixellated on machines with 1280x1024. I've tried
using a fairly high resolution image but it still looks bad. I've also tried
using the "fixedsize" attribute on the relevant control, but that just
causes the edge of the bitmap to be pushed off the viewable area. I've also
tried using jpegs, 24bit and 8 bit bitmaps.but now I'm out of ideas.
Any ideas from anyone? It's a real problem at the moment.
WIx 2 btw, using the FeatureTree GUI.
Steve
Steve Bennett
[POWERflex Corporation ]
[Tel: +61-3-9548-9006 Fax: +61-3-9548-9003]
[Email: spb @ pfxcorp.com Web: www.pfxcorp.com]
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