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Old 09-14-2009, 03:36 PM   #17
DaleDe
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Says a lot about the state of the industry that end users have to routinely recompile the product to get proper display.

So, instead of coding a point as an actual physical dimension they are coding it as an arbitrary number = 1 screen pixel, so text quality becomes a function of screen size.
Shades of MacOS 1.0!
Hard-coded screen metrics. How last century.
Guess I'd better stick with OI until those boys catch up on WYSIWIG displays, screen metrics, and typography...
Thanks for the warning.
You are welcome. I have forwarded the problem to Jinke (I hope) via Astak so perhaps they will fix it.

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