Posted on 01/01/2014 8:01:39 AM PST by ShadowAce
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Better results are obtained by using screen % rather than pixels to specify sizes, positions and distances. Here is an example:
<img src="http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1944/July/0705/0705-canadians17_zps5509ee16.jpg" width="100%">
Yields:
Notice that it resizes itself to the available area no matter what it is. The reference width is the width of the enclosing container.
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When I set up the pages for scanning I try to make their dimensions relate to the font size to some extent to ensure they will be as legible as possible once posted to FR. If they automatically resize that plan is undone.
To maintain a constant size of font when you are showing 4 columns use 100%, 3 columns use 75% and so forth.
Thank you so much for posting these great threads. Regards.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will play with the sizing and see if I can get a friendlier presentation.
With the proliferation of display devices, screens now come in a wide variety of sizes and aspect ratios. The image below illustrates the range of screens possible. Differing aspect ratios are shown on the diagonal lines with the ratio in circles towards the lower right.
Given the wide variation in screen resolution and size when we step from mobi to fondleslab to display to HDTV it is lunacy to specify screen position in term of pixels. There is no way to know what sized screen you are imaging to so it is best to reference screen sizes and positions in percentages instead of pixels. The resulting size is the percentage of the width (or height) of the enclosing container. This is most useful when specifying positions and sizes of tables and images.
Things that are text related, such as the whitespace around a paragraph or header and text sizes are best specified in em. One em was origionally the width of an M in the current font. In a multilingual world where not all alphabets have an M in them, the meaning has evolved to mean the height of the current font. As the user changes the magnification on a page the size of an em changes with it. This produces a pleasing scaled effect to the eye not possible when spacing objects in pixels.
Other unit values available are in inch, cm centimeter, mm millimeter, ex x-height of a font (x-height is usually about half the font-size), pt point - 1/72 of an inch, pc pica - 12 points and px pixels - a single dot on the screen. Best results are achieved by using em and percent to specify size. Try not to do anything else.
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I still do it in pixels, lol
I thought quotation marks around URL’s were not necessary any longer
Success!
Yeah!!
I’ll be FReepmailing some links with titles, probably late tomorrow night or early Saturday. Gotta catch the “bus” on Sunday!
Meanwhile, you should download some free GIMP photo editing software and get a Photobucket account. Then you can post cool maps, too.
Just send me the links and I’ll make the posts!
iWell, ok!/i
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