[plt-scheme] slideshow/textpic bitmaps

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 11 23:28:54 EST 2004

Another option is to force the window to actually be 1024x768 (I think 
via commandline options).

Robby

On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:24 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

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> At Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:24:22 -0500, Daniel Silva wrote:
>> When loading PNG images with (bitmap "filename.png") to use in a
>> slideshow, my PNGs usually come out looking really poor, even if I 
>> scale
>> them down.
>
> What do you mean by "scale them down"?
>
> My first guess is that your screen isn't 1024x768, and so the slides
> (including bitmap content) is scaled to fit your screen.
>
> A reliable way to counter this scaling is to wrap the bitmap pict with
> `size-in-pixels'. Of course, for different display sizes, the bitmap
> will be a different size relative to the rest of the slide.
>
> But are you already using `size-in-pixels'?
>
> Matthew



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