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From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Is "transform" in NeWS 1.1 OK ?
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Date: 30 Jan 89 11:04:24 GMT
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Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
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The problem stems from a mistaken belief that the default CTM
should have 0 0 at bottom left and y increasing up the page.
Sun turned themselves inside out to make this true for
pixrects, which have 0 0 as top left and y increasing down the
page. If they hadn't done that then an awful lot of current
faults (e.g. movecanvas) would not be there...
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