Question

my code below is supposed to display N lines per inch. instead i get a little more than N lines per inch. the distance between lines is somewhat smaller. in addition, changing the screen resolution makes the distance between lines change too. does anyone know how to handle that?

using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Media;

namespace MyApp
{
    class MyControl : Control
    {
        private readonly ContainerVisual container = new ContainerVisual();
        private readonly DrawingVisual drawing = new DrawingVisual();

        private void RenderDrawing()
        {
            var s = PresentationSource.FromVisual(this);
            var dpiX = 96 * s.CompositionTarget.TransformToDevice.M11;
            var dpiY = 96 * s.CompositionTarget.TransformToDevice.M22;

            double N = 1;

            using (var c = drawing.RenderOpen())
            {
                var p = new Pen(new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Black), 1);

                for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
                {
                    var x = i * dpiX / N;
                    c.DrawLine(p, new Point(x, 0), new Point(x, 100));
                }
            }
        }

        protected override Size ArrangeOverride(Size s)
        {
            RenderDrawing();
            return s;
        }

        protected override Visual GetVisualChild(int index)
        {
            return container;
        }

        protected override Size MeasureOverride(Size s)
        {
            return new Size();
        }

        protected override int VisualChildrenCount
        {
            get { return 1; }
        }

        public MyControl()
        {
            container.Children.Add(drawing);
            AddVisualChild(container);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

this article seems to discuss the same problem: WPF DPI issues
there is no solution to this problem other than asking the user to set the correct DPI settings that correspond to the physical DPI of the screen. a workaround that i found that makes life a little easier is to use WPF application level scaling as described here: http://www.odewit.net/ArticleContent.aspx?id=WpfDpiScaling&lang=en&format=html