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Dell laptop and IE 6.0.29: can't render bitmaps properly? DK 04-26-2006
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Posted by DK on April 26, 2006, 4:38 am
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 Just got Latitude D820 and something is definitely up with IE.
It can't properly render any bitmap! They all end up pixelated,
badly distorted at the edges and look outright horrible. Even
simple one like buttons and lettering. At the same time:

Text looks fantastic down to very small sizes;
All bitmaps are rendered perfectly normally by Firefox;
Same bitmaps downloaded by IE look normal in all
other all applications.

I've never seen anything as strange. I have hard time
beliveving Dell configured and shipped it like this. On the
other hand, this is basically an out of the box computer,
so I have no idea what I could have done to it.

Any clues what might be wrong? Thanks!

DK

Posted by TheBurgerMan on April 26, 2006, 7:34 am
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 Change your DPI display settings so that it is Normal size (96 DPI) from the
Dell default Large (120 DPI).

--
Thanks,
TheBurgerMan
at
gmail.com
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> Just got Latitude D820 and something is definitely up with IE.
> It can't properly render any bitmap! They all end up pixelated,
> badly distorted at the edges and look outright horrible. Even
> simple one like buttons and lettering. At the same time:
>
> Text looks fantastic down to very small sizes;
> All bitmaps are rendered perfectly normally by Firefox;
> Same bitmaps downloaded by IE look normal in all
> other all applications.
>
> I've never seen anything as strange. I have hard time
> beliveving Dell configured and shipped it like this. On the
> other hand, this is basically an out of the box computer,
> so I have no idea what I could have done to it.
>
> Any clues what might be wrong? Thanks!
>
> DK



Posted by DK on April 26, 2006, 9:15 am
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>Change your DPI display settings so that it is Normal size (96 DPI) from the
>Dell default Large (120 DPI).

I tried it. It does not change a thing (other than making fonts so small
as to unreadable). Bitmaps still lokk like crap and still only in
IE. Vector graphics (e.g. Flash cartoons) is rendered perfectly smooth
and crisp.

DK




Posted by Tom Scales on April 26, 2006, 10:40 am
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This is a bug in IE on a widescreen display. Check support.microsoft.com or
just use a better browser.
> Change your DPI display settings so that it is Normal size (96 DPI) from
> the Dell default Large (120 DPI).
>
> --
> Thanks,
> TheBurgerMan
> at
> gmail.com
> --
>> Just got Latitude D820 and something is definitely up with IE.
>> It can't properly render any bitmap! They all end up pixelated,
>> badly distorted at the edges and look outright horrible. Even
>> simple one like buttons and lettering. At the same time:
>>
>> Text looks fantastic down to very small sizes;
>> All bitmaps are rendered perfectly normally by Firefox;
>> Same bitmaps downloaded by IE look normal in all
>> other all applications.
>>
>> I've never seen anything as strange. I have hard time
>> beliveving Dell configured and shipped it like this. On the
>> other hand, this is basically an out of the box computer,
>> so I have no idea what I could have done to it.
>>
>> Any clues what might be wrong? Thanks!
>>
>> DK
>
>



Posted by DK on April 26, 2006, 11:09 am
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>This is a bug in IE on a widescreen display. Check support.microsoft.com or
>just use a better browser.

I figured it out. Turns out, it's not a bug, it's a feature :-)

It's called "Internet Explorer Scaling" and the idea
is that at super high resolutions pics are too small so they
are resized (without upsampling).

Normally it is controlled by "UseHR" setting in Registry, but
on my Dell's custom version of IE the ke
y made no difference. I had to download "IEscale.exe" from
Dell in order to fix the problem.

DK


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