Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subplot Questions

John Hunter wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 12:54 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> 
>> Screens vary.  The screen on my laptop has about 130 dpi. Desktop flat
>> panels will usually have a smaller value than that.  For example, an old
>> "15-inch" flat panel with 1024/768 pixels is actually about 12 inches
>> wide, so dpi=85.  The mpl default 'figure.dpi' of 80 is low; I doubt
> 
> 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 any other software actually do this?  I have never seen anything 
with more than a single dpi setting.  What is an example of a display 
with non-square pixels?  And how non-square are they?  I suspect this is 
not something that Alan really needs to worry about.

Eric