Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!dkuug!dde!mbe From: mbe@dde.uucp (Martin Berg) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re^2: MS Paint problem Message-ID: <201@mother.dde.uucp> Date: 9 Aug 89 13:18:50 GMT References:<106580057@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark Lines: 39 bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) writes: >/ hpcvlx:comp.windows.ms / ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu (M. Ghodsi) / 2:43 pm Aug 1, 1989 / >The MS Paint that I am running does not draw perfect circles; it draws >ovals instead. Does any body know what the problem is? >thanks, >ghodsi@cs.psu.edu >---------- >Honest, it is drawing circles.... There is an option available that says whether the >drawing is formatted for the screen or for the printer. If you use the default (format >for printer) then each pixel is drawn as if it has the same aspect ratio of the printer >(since Paint simply displays the bitmap without any scaling, this is the only way they >can format it to use the printer's capabilities.) And since most printers (especially >laser printers) use square pixels while the displays still use rectangular pixels, >things don't look quite right. >--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com) >HP Corvallis Information Systems Are you sure ? I have had this problem with Paint in Windows 2.03 and Windows/286 2.1: When I choose the circle an oval is draw (I'm able to change the shape with the mouse !). If I instead choose the oval I get a nice circle (on screen and printer). After I found out I just accepted this as a minor bug with an easy 'work-around'. -- mbe@dde.dk | "The answer is 42" or | D. Adams ..uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!dde!mbe |