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Message #37323
Re: Problem with our Cairo-only strategy
On 8/28/2018 2:03 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Got it: OPENGL_ANTIALIASING_MODE::SUPERSAMPLING_X4.
>
> (We weren’t picking this up because it’s saved in the Pcbnew section.
> We probably want to move it to Common. There isn’t any reason you’d
> want a different setting for Pcbnew and Eeschema is there?)
I wouldn't think so. I'm guessing it was saved in the pcbnew because
that was the only place it was being used. Now that we are moving
eeschema to gal, the common section makes more sense although there may
be a reason to have separate settings that I haven't considered.
>
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>> On 28 Aug 2018, at 18:21, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Do we need to write a macos GAL object that uses the native macos device
>> context? This seems redundant to me because isn't that the purpose of
>> wxDC and it's derivatives?
>>
>> On 8/28/2018 1:11 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> Hi Seth,
>>>
>>> The scaling comes out correct, it’s just blocky.
>>>
>>> Is there some way to adjust what Cairo thinks the screen resolution is
>>> and then re-scale the canvas so that everything comes out the same
>>> again? I don’t know.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 28 Aug 2018, at 18:06, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can we just use cairo_scale to adjust the axes for Mac retina?
>>>>
>>>> -S
>>>>
>>>> Am Di., 28. Aug. 2018 um 09:59 Uhr schrieb Jeff Young
>>>> <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>>>>
>>>> JP made the Footprint Wizard Cairo-only recently, and I planned to
>>>> do the same for the Eeschema dialog previews.
>>>>
>>>> However, I’ve just discovered that Cairo doesn’t handle Retina
>>>> displays on Mac. (It essentially draws blocks of 2x2 pixels
>>>> instead of individual ones.)
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know if this is something we can fix, or if we need to use
>>>> OpenGL on Mac?
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