On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:49 -0500, Matyas Selmeci wrote: > > > Windows used to have a gui that would show a ruler on your monitor and > > > say "hold a real ruler up to this and slide the slider until its the > > > same size." Given what's been said about how windows handles DPI I can > > > only wonder what it did, but it might be a nice thing to have. > > > > I think it was more some specific app that did that, wasn't it? I'm > > almost sure it was either Paint Shop Pro or the GIMP, because obviously, > > actual physical accuracy is quite important there. Otherwise it was > > something like Office. It was definitely some specific app where WYSIWYG > > was important, not an OS. > > A specific app may have done it as well, but before Vista, the DPI > settings dialog box in the Control Panel had that feature. ah, OK. thanks for the reminder. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
