Re: High-res printing

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Jul 29, 2005, at 9:48 PM, Edward K.Chew wrote:

>> OpenGL has a limit on viewport size, but the exact value depends  
>> on the renderer.  Are you running on Mac or Windows?  If Mac, is  
>> it Tiger or earlier?  I seem to recall a value of 2048 on Mac pre- 
>> Tiger.
>
> I'm running in Tiger using the interactive renderer.  I should try  
> it on a Panther machine to see if there is a difference.  2048 is  
> really not that great, is it?  Apple's 30" Cinema Display can  
> supposedly hit 2650 x 1600.  I wonder if I can convince the boss to  
> buy me one for compatibility testing purposes?  ;-)

I don't think I made myself clear.  The viewport limit of 2048 was  
for the OpenGL software renderer (which is what I suppose you would  
be using for printing).  When rendering to a window, the viewport  
size is going to depend on the graphics card.

Under Tiger, I think the software renderer has a viewport size of  
around 16K.  So, if you tested on Tiger, using a recent version of  
Quesa, I don't know why you would have hit a limit at 11x17 at 300dpi.