The 'Monitor Size' setting could do with an update

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July 24, 2013
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This isn't the most important issue in the world, but I did notice that the 'Monitor Size' setting in Frame 11 (Edit > Preferences > Global > General > Monitor Size) hasn't changed for years.

It's used so that when you have your screen set to 100% zoom, it matches the real paper world in size.

But - it just has a drop-down for 'diagonal width" monitor size which assumes a 4:3 aspect ratio (as per old CRT monitors) and only goes up to 22". I'm currently typing on a 23" 'widescreen' (16:9) monitor so I don't think that diagonal width drop-down is going to do much useful for me

Feature request

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Arnis Gubins

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FWIW, this one of those magic dropdown lists where you can also directly enter your own value, e.g. 23.

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peter minneapolis

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Arnis Gubins wrote:
FWIW, this one of those magic dropdown lists where you can also directly enter your own value, e.g. 23.

IIRC, in the old days of CRT monitors, when pixel sizes varied model-to-model, brand-to-brand, the sure-fire way to get true on-screen dimensions was to experiment with settings and measure with a ruler. This may or may not apply to modern monitors.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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feline_1973Author

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Peter, I think TFT/LCD monitors are much the same, pixels sizes are generally slightly different.
The only real difference is that on CRTs you could adjust the display resolution 'to taste' and even play a bit with horizontal and vertical stretch, whereas on a LCD you really need to go for the native resolution, or they look like hell.

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