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Re: [udig-devel] Re: How to get the display properties
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On Apr 5, 2005 8:31 PM, Matthias Basler <Matthias.Basler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> > > You can access the device information associated with an Image or Page.
> > > Often you get to know the DPI and the size of the display device. It is
> > > a bit more complicated for a page, where margins are also provided.
> > >
> > > Jody
> >
> > But I'm a headless server sending you a jpeg image, how do I know now?
>
> >From my perspective, as a data server you would't even care about it. As a
> server you would store f.e. some roads.shp styled to be displayed 5 mm wide.
> (Or maybe you would store it without any styling information at all.)
>
> How this is rendered on the user's screen (in pixels) is the responsibility of
> the client, i.e. uDig on my laptop.
>
But as a WMS I just send the client an image, the client gets no
choice as to how it renders that image.
Ian
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Ian Turton
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