Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subplot Questions

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, John Hunter apparently wrote:
> And it is not unusual to have a different DPI in the 
> horizontal and vertical directions.  In order to support 
> true physical sizes on the screen, we would need to 
> support different dpis in the two directions. 

Does that mean that one should expect font-shape distortion
when PNGs are displayed onscreen?  And maybe even that a
square figure will not display as square? If not, why not?

I've never had to think about this before: it seems an
odd nightmare for some kinds of online publication
(e.g., scientific journals using HTML based publication
formats).

Thank you,
Alan Isaac