RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] GDraw bitmap width limit

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

You can export bitmaps to at least 10,000 pixels (and I have a feeling
15,000 pixels) in the latest Xtreme, so I don't know why there is a much
lower limit in printing.

I think Gavin changed GDraw some time back to allow this, so the old
printing code probably assumes older GDraw limits.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 26 June 2006 16:37
> To: xara-dev
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: [XaraXtreme-dev] GDraw bitmap width limit
> 
> Gavin,
> 
> There seems to be a limit on GDraw re plotting to bitmaps 
> more than 4096 pixels wide (in GDraw_SetupBitmap). I will not 
> pretend I am lucky enough to have a 4096 pixel wide monitor, 
> but this seems to cause serious difficulty if you want to 
> print via bitmap to a landscape A4 page. As far as I can see, 
> you are limited to about 340 dpi. You can't get 600dpi even 
> on A4 portrait.
> 
> Is this a hard limit? And if so, are we going to have to work 
> around it through horizontal (as well as vertical) banding 
> (yuck)? If we could get up to a 32,768 pixel limit, we'd be 
> able to do an A4 page at 2,400 dpi without code redesign 
> (though I am assuming that GDraw's pixel referencing stuff 
> may not be sign-safe at least on 32bit, so we'd be limited to 
> 16,384 pixel high stripes, giving 2Gb patches - quite doable 
> on a modern machine). At 2,400dpi a whole page is just over 
> 2Gb, and whilst clearly you wouldn't want everything at 
> 2,400dpi as it's screened, if you are printing as a bitmap 
> you haven't got much choice if you want screen text, and 2Gb 
> is perfectly feasible these days with a DVD. Equally it would 
> allow us to do A0 at 600dpi, which is pretty reasonable for 
> posters etc.
> 
> Alex
>