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    Resolution Independance

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by xbandaidx, Oct 25, 2006.

  1. xbandaidx

    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    It's been confirmed.

    a quote from Apples Developer site.
    So does this make Mac OS X leopard the first OS that features resolution independance? I believe so as far as I know.
     
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Probably. I know there are things like native SVG support in KDE, so my wallpapers and such are resolution independent, which is very nice, and they've got SVG icons which are going to be usable quite soon as a standard part of the distribution I believe. But other than that, it's still raster and DPI dependent for most of the GUI. Sounds like fun ;) Wonder if the XGL desktop stuff in Linux would be able to be modified into supporting this somehow... it'd take a full rework from application level and up, though, as Apple is saying. Can't just put a bitmap on the screen any more, all your graphics have to be vector based. I'm just wondering what Photoshop and other print image users will have to do, how gracefully that will change, because there's no way you're going to get an SVG based camera, and you still need to work on a pixel basis at times... just some musings from a programmer geeks perspective ;)
     
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