Print bug in MacOSX: Extremely large fonts

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Dec 8, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:

>>> On 13 November 2012 05:03, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>>> Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> There's something wrong with the printing, at least on MacOSX. See the
>>>>> attached screen shot. All the printout variants are equally bad.
>>>> Clearly the point scaling is wrong on the Mac...
>>>> 
>>>> Can you play with
>>>> 
>>>> #define DPI_SCREEN 72.0
>>>> #define SCALE_SCREEN 1.0
>>>> #define SCALE_PRINT (1.0 / DPI_SCREEN)
>>>> 
>>>> in display.h and see which value you need for the Mac?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Better late than never:  When I set SCALE_PRINT to (0.04 / DPI_SCREEN), the fonts look better, but things still look kinda wrong.  Shouldn't there have been grid lines and events on the printout?
> 
> Check http://db.tt/cHLfslPX for an example.
> 
>> At 14.11.12 15:55, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>>> before i wrote the modification that supposedly does the trick on all
>>> os (at least i can see it does on linux + windows), i've received
>>> reports that the method in question worked on osx as well. something
>>> may be out of place.
>>> 
>>> the patch:
>>> http://lists.hohndel.org/pipermail/subsurface/2012-September/000694.html
> 
> That patch obviously doesn't apply any longer, but I checked out b73f29fea3ae88a06d8f773a6d48510520c127f0 and tried it.  I couldn't see any changes to the printout.  Still enormous fonts.

I clearly hadn't tried to print from a Mac in a while. Yeah, that's insane. Another thing to track down :-(

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