POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Monitor sizes : Re: Monitor sizes Server Time
29 Jul 2024 14:19:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Monitor sizes  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 10 Apr 2012 13:56:30
Message: <4f84744e$1@news.povray.org>
>> I don't know. I haven't looked into this sort of thing. I thought there
>> was a "change DPI" setting somewhere in the control panel, but I've got
>> no idea how various programs would react to that.
>
> There is.

I thought so.

> The main problem, is that many applications' display will break down if
> you increase the DPI setting past 96.

Any specific reason?

> Some web page layout will also get
> broken if you change your DPI setting. That's why using absolute PIXEL
> values is realy bad.

Well, yeah, we all knew that. ;-)

(Though of course if the page is loaded with graphics, all of those are 
rendered at fixed pixel sizes, so...)


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