Re: Drawing GIFs w/GS... propotional prooblems!

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5k9lhe$l1p@nntp.hut.fi>, Paul Dunkel <pdunkel@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>I have drawn some pictures with AW GS, then converted them to GIFs and
>uploaded them to my account. Everything works great, but the propotions
>are wrong. I mean the square isn't a square anymore, but a rectangular.

   That's a relic of the original Apple II display modes: pixels
on Apple IIs aren't square to begin with. 

>Now I do like this: I draw a picture. When it's finnished, I group it
>and stretch it at y-direction to double... Then I convert it and
>upload. And it looks good enough.

   You expect it any other way? AWGS is running the GS's in 640x200
mode. Other computers are all 640x480 (well, VGA displays can be
coerced into 640x400 mode, as stuff like the Windoze 95 boot logo
shows) in that mode. Of course doubling it vertically is going to make
it look right on other systems.

Nathan Mates
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