AW: What happens when enabling Hi-DPI scaling?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Oct 27 16:26:17 EDT 2015


On 10/27/2015 2:58 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>
> It causes text (on Windows) to be rendered as a path internally, and
> then painted to the target - this means that it doesn't suffer the
> 'changing metrics' problem. It is actually what 'formatForPrinting' now
> sits on (on Windows) - meaning you can actually show a nice accurate
> print preview of layout of a stack without the drawbacks of that mode
> which used to exist (many versions ago).
>
> Of course, I think I just noticed it never made it into the dictionary...

I didn't even have to think, I looked it up and it wasn't there. :)

But since you're (presumably) about to add the term, is there a better 
word for it? Something indicating "text" somehow? Anyone looking for a 
property like that would probably do a search for "text".

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