Re: [platform-swt-dev] Autoscale and printing

[Philippe Detournay <plouf@xxxxxxx>]

Replying to myself with more details:
  - I'm using "quarter" as autoScale setting;
  - The autoscale does not appear to be happenning on MacOSX's printers, 
so this really looks like a bug, or at least a significant discrepency 
between tthe platforms.


On 2016-07-17 09:30, Philippe Detournay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I started to test the new 4.6 autoscale feature for HighDPI usage.
> I’m running on Windows 10 with scale factor set to 150%. I observed
> that the autoscale appears to be enabled on all devices, including
> printers. This means in practice that if I want to draw items of
> specific size (for instance, 5 inches), whereas I used to perform a
> simple 5*getDPI().x, I now have to divide this result by the autoscale
> factor (which requires parsing a system property, so quite clunky). Is
> this the expected behavior, and is this the proper solution?
>
> Kind regards to all,
> Philippe
>
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