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Title: smeared title when installing
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Components: Installation Versions: Python 2.4
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Status: closed Resolution: out of date
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Assigned To: Nosy List: brauwerman, georg.brandl, jimjjewett, loewis
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Created on 2004-10-18 22:09 by jimjjewett, last changed 2006-10-12 12:29 by georg.brandl.

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msg22774 (view) Author: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett) Date: 2004-10-18 22:09 
Python 2.4b1 on Windows XP.  1280x800.

The "python: for windows" heading looks smeared.

Other graphical elements also look somewhat 
smeared, but it isn't as much of a problem when it 
isn't text to begin with.
msg22775 (view) Author: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett) Date: 2004-10-18 22:16 
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I used a .bmp to avoid additional info loss.  Zipped file is 
only 20K, but unzips to over a meg.
msg22776 (view) Author: Mike Brauwerman (brauwerman) Date: 2004-10-18 23:09 
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The "smearing" is the effect of a small bitmap picture, with
aliased text, blown up (stretched) to fit into a large
space. The graphic has fat pixels, which look a little
funny, but they look better if you squint :-)
msg22777 (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-10-19 19:30 
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I don't know what to do about this. Any suggestion
appreciated; without suggestions, this likely is what 2.4
will look like.
msg22778 (view) Author: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett) Date: 2004-10-20 00:23 
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Would it be possible to recreate the original picture (or at 
least parts of it) at the full size, instead of stretching?  If the 
picture parts have to be stretched, that isn't such a 
problem, but it is better if the button frames aren't 
stretched -- and particularly the text.

Even just replacing the "windows: python" with blank space 
and text (or redoing that one portion at full size -- maybe 
not aliased?) would help.

Is this the highest-level source?  If so, what size would you 
like it stretched to, and I'll see if I can help.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/python/
python/dist/src/PCbuild/installer.bmp?rev=1.2.18.2
msg22779 (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-10-20 06:32 
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We would need to ask the original author of that picture. I
have not been able to contact him; please try yourself.

Using PCbuild/installer.bmp might indeed be an option. I
could try to arrange the dialogs so that it won't need scaling.
msg22780 (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-10-20 06:35 
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Scratch the remark on PCbuild/installer.bmp. I somehow
thought that 1.2.18.2 has a different resolution than the
HEAD version, which it doesn't. I don't understand the
phrase "highest-level source". If you are asking whether
this is the primary source: for us, it is. Erik van Blokland
has some mechanism to generate that, but we don't.
msg22781 (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) Date: 2006-10-12 12:29 
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The PC build now has entirely different icons, using the new
Python.org style. Closing this.
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