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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Scaling
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Date: 2 Jun 90 00:07:19 GMT
References: <CMM.0.88.643997845.lazy@haar.uio.no>
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In article <CMM.0.88.643997845.lazy@haar.uio.no>, Lazy@ifi.uio.no writes:
|> 
|> 	Is it possible for a window (under NeWS 1.1) to have a 
|> 	non-evenly-spaced scale ? Something like a mercator
|> 	map projection ? 
|> 
|> 	Have someone written such a scale-function ?

Transformations in NeWS and PostScript are linear, thus this is impossible.

|> 
|> Lasse Bjerde					lazy@ifi.uio.no
|> Department of Informatics
|> University of Oslo, Norway
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