Barb
Tue Apr 29 10:30:32 PDT 2008
I'm not a developer, but replacing it in the sense of removing it to
use something else would seem unlikely. Other software vendors have
added programs to the 10 foot interface (Adobe Photoshop Elements
for example does this) but I have not tried printing from them.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:59:00 -0700, Ramey
<Ramey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the quick reply!
>
>I can certainly understand, especially for performance reasons, why MC would
>downsample the photo for the sake of displaying it on the screen. I'm only
>displaying 720 lines on the TV while my pictures are significantly higher
>than that. But one would expect/hope that the print functionality would look
>at the source material and not just send what is essentially a screen capture
>to the printer.
>
>I know my way around Visual Studio, C# and VB. Would it be possible to
>replace this built-in function with a custom self-written one?
>
>
>
>"Barb Bowman" wrote:
>
>> Photos are down sampled in Vista Windows Media Center. For a high
>> quality print you need to print outside of MCE. Windows Photo
>> Gallery produces better prints. As you noted, this has been true for
>> all versions of MCE.
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:07:01 -0700, Ramey
>> <Ramey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I have noticed that when printing photos from within the Media Center UI the
>> >quality is significantly poorer when compared to the same photo printed
>> >directly out of Windows. Is there any way to resolve this? I have noticed in
>> >other forums that this problem seems to go all the way back to earlier
>> >versions of MCE.
>> --
>>
>> Barb Bowman
>> MS-MVP
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
>>
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
>>
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