From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] page and .ps bitmaps
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:29:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c273110e17d857ca4378d9d39201c9ce@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17D481B55@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz>
The resizer in page(1) is fairly crude - it trades quality for speed.
On windows and the like the resizing is often done in hardware (in the graphics card),
unfortunaletly plan9 makes no use of such features so it has to do a pure
software implementation - hence the tradeoff.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-25 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-25 8:07 cej
2007-07-25 11:29 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2007-07-25 12:07 Russ Cox
2007-07-26 10:40 ` cej
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