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Background

The openIMIS Initiative is a very diverse community of users, implementers and developers from all over the globe. Unfortunately the economic conditions are not the same for all of our members - which has an direct impact on what kind of hardware we are using. This is especially ‘visible’ when comparing the screen resolutions of computer screens: while the global standard in most places seems to be HD capable screens (1920x1080 pixels), developers and other nerds often use screens with a much higher resolution while users in underfunded government agencies often run on outdated material using a much lower resolution (e.g. XGA = 1024x768 pixels). Although most operating systems and browsers offer some sort of down-scaling of images, the results are not satisfying simply because the screen cannot display more pixels than were build in physically. The results can be very blurry, fine print becomes unreadable and GUI layouts get awfully scrambled. The size of the screen doesn’t matter - even a huge TV-screen might just have a FULL HD resolution and produce blurry fonts.

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• Download the below picture and view it in the original size (100% or 1:1) on your screen. Resize your browser window or the window of the application you want to share to the size of the openIMIS colored box and you’ll get an idea of the screen size of your users on older computers. That is all they’ll be able to see on their screenside.
  

  

• If you are working on an external Full HD screen, simply flip it into portrait mode and your window width will automatically be close to what your users will see.

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