How do I use MacPortrait with a hi-resolution monitor (larger than 1280×1024)?
I am successfully using MacPortrait under OS9 with a Samsung Syncmaster 240T that has a native resolution of 1920×1200. This required a couple of hacks that are described here. As shipped, MacPortrait artificially restricts your monitor size to 1280×1024 or smaller, because it refuses to allocate a large enough buffer for anything bigger. However, using ResEdit you can override this restriction. WARNING: make a copy before using ResEdit on your MacPortrait Driver file. Open the MacPortrait Driver extension file in ResEdit. Open the resource type called ‘Pref’ and open ID 128 (which should be the only one in the list). You will see a list of settings. Scroll down the list. Make sure that Auto Calc Buffer is set to 1 and then change Max Resolution from 1280 to 1920. Save, exit, and reboot. Now the MacPortrait should have a big enough buffer to rotate your hi-res monitor. You may notice when you open the MacPortrait Controls control panel that the list of resolutions is incomplete and doe
