On Monday 06 Jun 2005 01:06, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
This is a bit of a tricky area, as I believe that once we change things to follow the specs even closer, it would entail getting the DPI from the runtime display environment (though if not done properly, things would quickly devolve into chaos)
Jon, maybe I'm misinterpreting what you've said, but you seem to be suggesting that this part is quite a low priority.
It seems to me that respecting display DPI is pretty important. AFAIK, MS Windows, X11, and OS X all provide DPI information, so it seems strange to ignore that and display with the incorrect sizes. Ignoring a 20% size difference is much like ignoring a 20% color difference, to me.
The display units thing is also strange to me. Does the spec actually say that you can't choose to use any other units by default, or simply that if you don't specify anything else *in the file*, it defaults to screen units?
Wouldn't it be best to save in absolute units that are cross-platform compatible, unless someone chooses "export to web..." or "export for display..." or something like that? That way, it would be much easier for people to share work across platforms (important for the Open Content movement), and you could also add optimisation to the export to web option. I haven't read that part of the spec though, so I appreciate it may be something unchangeable.
I'm not the expert here, of course, so please just take these comments as the thoughts that they are ;)