Resolution in MSN buddy icons

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xGrape
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Resolution in MSN buddy icons

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I notice that for severeal of my contacts, the MSN buddy icons / user pictures are tiny tiny. Like 16x16 pixels. I have only seen this with contacts who use the official Mac Messenger client. And they all say it looks big and nice on their side, as well as from a Windows computer.

Could it be that the Windows messenger converts every picture to 72dpi, and the Mac version doesn't? But that both official clients (Mac and Win) can handle higher-rez pictures by upscaling them at the other end?

And Adium doesn't have this feature yet? Would it be hard to implement, if it is indeed the problem?
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A dpi difference is likely the problem -- I've heard about someone having an image come in rotated because embedded data in the image told us to rotate it. I don't know what it would take to fix a dpi issue like that... we let Apple's frameworks do all the heavy lifting for displaying images.
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evands wrote:A dpi difference is likely the problem -- I've heard about someone having an image come in rotated because embedded data in the image told us to rotate it. I don't know what it would take to fix a dpi issue like that... we let Apple's frameworks do all the heavy lifting for displaying images.
If they're handing off the embedded data in the image, couldn't someone embed that "image of death" thing that was floating around awhile back, or has that finally gotten fixed?
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kbotc wrote:
evands wrote:A dpi difference is likely the problem -- I've heard about someone having an image come in rotated because embedded data in the image told us to rotate it. I don't know what it would take to fix a dpi issue like that... we let Apple's frameworks do all the heavy lifting for displaying images.
If they're handing off the embedded data in the image, couldn't someone embed that "image of death" thing that was floating around awhile back, or has that finally gotten fixed?
I checked within 30 minutes of hearing about that... MSN strips enough data that it doesn't work.
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