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Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> This is a different concept than virtual workstations in VDI. In VDI, a 
> virtual workstation is nothing but a set of stored parameters (colour, 
> line style, fillpattern etc) attached to a handle we call a "virtual 
> workstation". So when using a virtual workstation, you're only using 
> those settings when drawing. The drawing is performed directly on the 
> physical workstation (screen, printer, plotter...).
> 

The most important aspect of virtua; workstations is
the ability to change attribute settings (line style, fill colors. etc)
without affecting the others. For this reason XaAES, and I suppose
all other AES's, after heving opened the physical workstation
open a virtual workstation for themselves.


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Groeten; Regards.
Henk Robbers. http://members.chello.nl/h.robbers
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