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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff, 

Presumably for Retina, and other hiDPI displays, we should either be rendering a 2x resolution icon set or we should load them as SVG in the first place rather than doing a bilinear upscale (which will look pretty bad for icons that start out aligned nicely). 

IIRC the current upscale method was a stop gap for v5.

Cheers,

John

On 19 March 2019 20:14:12 GMT, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The blurry ones actually look better on a Retina display, but I’m OK
>with the others if they look better everywhere else.
>
>Cheers,
>Jeff.
>
>
>> On 19 Mar 2019, at 19:54, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> 
>> Whew!  I was starting worry about my vision there for minute :)
>> 
>> On 3/19/2019 3:52 PM, John Beard wrote:
>>> D'oh, yes! Sorry, new ones on the right, I changed it and didn't
>>> change the text.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:50 PM Wayne Stambaugh
><stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey John,
>>>> 
>>>> Are you sure the new icons aren't on the right?  The ones on the
>left
>>>> look blurry to me.  Either may eyes are totally gone or the icons
>on the
>>>> right are the aligned ones.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Wayne
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/19/2019 3:43 PM, John Beard wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I plan to pixel align the module icons in Pcbnew, as they are
>>>>> currently blurry (and not even consistently blurry) - they're
>probably
>>>>> the worst offenders left for blurriness. Getting these aligned at
>26px
>>>>> will be a good step towards hiDPI-aware scalable icons, as they
>will
>>>>> also be aligned at 2x resolution.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However, due to a quirk of the number 26, it's impossible to have
>the
>>>>> current fat-ish pins, keep the pins and module centred in the
>icon,
>>>>> and have 3 pins to a side, and keep them all pixel aligned (which
>is
>>>>> why even the most-sharp current icon has blurry middle pins). So
>the
>>>>> pins are now a bit skinnier. Hence a quick check that these icons
>are
>>>>> acceptable.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Comparison image attached (new icons on left). I haven't changed
>any
>>>>> metaphors or the pin colours.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> 
>>>>> John
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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