Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!parc!mdixon From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Towards a cheap Head Mounted display Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 00:11:33 GMT References: <5599@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC Lines: 14 Does anybody have any ideas where to look about getting the Window Server to render to a bitmap of a particular resolution? some variant of this question seems to turn up quite regularly; the answer is that it's trivial. postscript doesn't actually care what resolution your device is -- it just generates bitmaps based on the current transformation. tell the window server you want to render to a machportdevice, and it gives you an initial transformation of 1 pixel per postscript point; if you want something else, just use the 'scale' operator. -- .mike.