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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Zooming
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:14:22 GMT
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In article <9011071852.AA01344@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes:
>
>> I am writing an application that must allow a user to zoom the image >
>> displayed in a window.  How does one implement such a feature using X
>> windows? Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks.

>The only way I know of is to build the zoomed image in the client, using
>either simple pixel replication or some form of interpolation, and then
>XPutImage the zoomed image to the window. 

Display PostScript, present in DEC and IBM servers, will scale (and rotate)
images.  Pretty fast, too.

	-paul asente
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