[ python-Bugs-1049615 ] smeared title when installing

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Bugs item #1049615, was opened at 2004-10-19 00:09
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Category: Installation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: smeared title when installing

Initial Comment:
Python 2.4b1 on Windows XP.  1280x800.

The "python: for windows" heading looks smeared.

Other graphical elements also look somewhat 
smeared, but it isn't as much of a problem when it 
isn't text to begin with.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-10-20 08:35

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Scratch the remark on PCbuild/installer.bmp. I somehow
thought that 1.2.18.2 has a different resolution than the
HEAD version, which it doesn't. I don't understand the
phrase "highest-level source". If you are asking whether
this is the primary source: for us, it is. Erik van Blokland
has some mechanism to generate that, but we don't.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-10-20 08:32

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We would need to ask the original author of that picture. I
have not been able to contact him; please try yourself.

Using PCbuild/installer.bmp might indeed be an option. I
could try to arrange the dialogs so that it won't need scaling.

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Comment By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett)
Date: 2004-10-20 02:23

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Would it be possible to recreate the original picture (or at 
least parts of it) at the full size, instead of stretching?  If the 
picture parts have to be stretched, that isn't such a 
problem, but it is better if the button frames aren't 
stretched -- and particularly the text.

Even just replacing the "windows: python" with blank space 
and text (or redoing that one portion at full size -- maybe 
not aliased?) would help.

Is this the highest-level source?  If so, what size would you 
like it stretched to, and I'll see if I can help.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/python/
python/dist/src/PCbuild/installer.bmp?rev=1.2.18.2

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-10-19 21:30

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I don't know what to do about this. Any suggestion
appreciated; without suggestions, this likely is what 2.4
will look like.

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Comment By: Mike Brauwerman (brauwerman)
Date: 2004-10-19 01:09

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The "smearing" is the effect of a small bitmap picture, with
aliased text, blown up (stretched) to fit into a large
space. The graphic has fat pixels, which look a little
funny, but they look better if you squint :-)



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Comment By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett)
Date: 2004-10-19 00:16

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I used a .bmp to avoid additional info loss.  Zipped file is 
only 20K, but unzips to over a meg.

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