Hello. I am running 2000i on my laptop. When drawing circles, they are slightly squashed vertically. They dimension properly, but to look at them they appear wider than they are tall. Any settings to resolve this? Thanks.
Hello. I am running 2000i on my laptop. When drawing circles, they are slightly squashed vertically. They dimension properly, but to look at them they appear wider than they are tall. Any settings to resolve this? Thanks.
It's your Windows display, you are not running a 'square' setting like
1024x768 or variations of it.
Either mess up your laptop's display, or don't worry about it: it's still a
circle and it will plot nice and round ;)
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Dean Saadallah
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Yeah, I remember when there used to be a monitor calibration tool, but that
was taken out at some point. Maybe it was R12 that had it, or maybe R9.
"Dean Saadallah" <info from pendean> wrote in message
news:41581124_3@newsprd01...
It's your Windows display, you are not running a 'square' setting like
1024x768 or variations of it.
Either mess up your laptop's display, or don't worry about it: it's still
a
circle and it will plot nice and round ;)
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Dean Saadallah
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
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.... before they surrendered all system controls to Windows for 'compliance'.
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Dean Saadallah
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
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I'm running 1280x1024. Is that not standard? It's a Dell Inspiron 5150, but I opted for the extra $$ and got the UXVGA monitor. Could that have anything to do with it as well?
"Wizardvette" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote...
Did you mean UXGA?I'm running 1280x1024. Is that not standard?
It's a Dell Inspiron 5150, but I opted for the
extra $$ and got the UXVGA monitor. Could that
have anything to do with it as well?
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Some display resolutions are not the "standard" 4:3 aspect ratio. 1280x1024 is one.
1280x1024 = 5:4
1600x1200 = 4:3
1024x768 = 4:3
800x600 = 4:3
See also http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/pc/aspect.html
Thanks guys. Changed the res, and my circle problem is fixed. I appreciate the help!
Believe it or not, 1280X1024 is a "standard" from the old DOS VESA days of
SuperVGA drivers. But, back then, display resolutions were set per program.
That gave Acad total control over the display when it ran. That included a
ratio control option that you could use to calibrate the roundness of
circles and squareness of squares when using an "non-square pixle
resolution" setting such as 1280x1024
Now that Windows controls all that, Acad gave it up - it's stuck with the
pixels that Windows gives it.
The problem is that a lot of mid-sized LCD screens (like 17" and higher-end
laptops) use 1280x1024 as a "native" resolution. If you use any other
setting, things like fonts start to look a little more fuzzy. Some may
handle the "non-native" change better than others.
I have a 19" CRT and use 1280x960 which is 4:3
yes, 1280x1024 is the setting I changed to, from 1152x864 and all seems good, but now my aperture seemes squashed in the horizontal plane. I can't win!! lol
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