Re: Scaling bitmaps?

[Miki Tebeka <mtebeka@intel.com>]

Hello Matthew,

> > Isn't it possible to draw a bitmap using different sizes so it'll
> > scale?  This sound like something simple, but I tried to look
> > everywhere and couldn't find anything...
> 
> Not currently. The reason is that it isn't simple to implement under X,
> as least as far as I can tell. (It's trivial under Windows and MacOS,
> and easy to support for PostScript output.)
> 
> Am I overlooking something in the X library? Or perhaps someone knows
> of publically-available code --- in a reasonably compact form --- that
> scales bitmaps in X?

I think pnmscale does somthing similar. Don't know if the source are open
though (or where to get them).

Bye.

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