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From: bli@aludra.usc.edu (I are a college student.)
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Subject: Re: Assumed pixel aspect ratio in GIF images?
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Date: 20 Jul 90 00:47:55 GMT
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In article <9866@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
>I've been looking at some of the GIF image archives here and there on the
>net.  I find that some of the images look just fine on my workstation, while
>others are visibly distorted: usually, compressed vertically by 20% or so.
>I presume that such images have been set up to look OK on IBM-PC EGA and
>similar displays, which have non-square pixels.  However, the extent of the
>distortion seems to vary between files; maybe there are different pixel
>aspect ratios in common use?

This may be totally unrelated to the discussion at hand, so please excuse
the interuption.

My Question:

I have never seen the screen of a Sun close enough to look at the
pixels on its display. Can someone please mail me the aspect ratio
of a Sun display?

I am trying to convert SunRasters to another format, and I need to
know if I can _safely_ assume that all SunRasters have square pixels.

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