[Rivet] Proposals for make-plots

[Hendrik Hoeth]

Thus spake Frank Siegert (frank.siegert at cern.ch):

> I'll believe that. 1920px in 15.6" is a bit insane though. ;)

That's not insane! I can put three xterm next to each other, with
90 columns each.

\begin{ranting}
Seriously, my problem was that I didn't want to lose vertical resolution
compared to the old machine which had 1050 pixel. With the screen
manufacturers optimising profit by reducing area (=cost) while
increasing diagonal size (=coolness factor sells) we have seen them
moving from 4:3 to 16:10 to 16:9, and I'm sure in five years all we can
buy are 32:1 "screens". Then they realise that only a single line of
text fits on the screen and we are back at the thin telegraph paper
strips. I would *LOVE* to have a 15" 1600x1200 screen. Dell sold those
eight years ago. Today my only option to get y-resolution > 1000 pixel
was going for a full-HD display.  :-(
\end{ranting}

> Do you know whether there is a more appropriate parameter that we
> can pass to convert instead of "-density" (for example "-size")
> which will give a more uniform size across different screen
> widths/resolutions?

We would have to query the X-server for that, and I don't see a simple
way of doing that at the moment. AFAIK imagemagick doesn't support it
out-of-the-box.

Cheers,

    Hendrik

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