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From: gp@lll-lcc.aRpA (George Pavel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Backdrop on Mac II and large screen
Message-ID: <1737@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Date: 5 Jul 88 22:56:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore Ca
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I recently got a 19" Sony monitor from Supermac for my Mac II which I like
very much but I have a small problem with the Backdrop INIT that I didn't
have with the Apple color monitor.

First let me say that I know Backdrop does not put a picture in the background
permanently like it did on the Mac Plus.  I use it just to display one of a
random set of MacPaint files on startup.  I like this better than trying to
convert all my MacPaint files to PICT 0 resources so they can be put into the
StartUpScreen file.

The problem is that the pictures are displayed scrunched in the vertical
direction which makes them less than desireable to look at.  When I use the
Backdrop DA to View the files, they display correctly.  I've tried this on
other Mac II systems with 19" and 16" Supermac monitors and they do the same
thing.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

George Pavel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808  L-68
Livermore, CA 94550			Internet: gp@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
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