{"id":24453,"date":"2007-11-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/11\/20\/you-even-have-to-watch-out-for-your-placeholder-bitmaps\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T10:00:00","slug":"you-even-have-to-watch-out-for-your-placeholder-bitmaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20071120-00\/?p=24453","title":{"rendered":"You even have to watch out for your placeholder bitmaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the betas of Windows&nbsp;Vista, the final set of sample logon pictures had yet to be determined, so a bunch of placeholder bitmaps were created. These placeholders consisted of the letters <i>FPO<\/i> in a box. <a href=\"http:\/\/desktoppub.about.com\/od\/layout\/g\/fpo.htm\"> FPO is a standard term in desktop publishing<\/a>; it stands for <i>For Position Only<\/i>. In order to permit designers to perform page layout before final images are ready, a For Position Only image with the correct size and shape (but dummy contents) is used. I learned it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/services\/promolibrary\/faq.html#WhatdoestheFPOthewatermarkontheprintadsmean\">For Placement Only<\/a>, but the meaning is the same.\n We received a bug report from a beta tester in Austria who was surprised to see what appeared at first glance to be the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austrian_Freedom_Party\"> the FP&Ouml; political party<\/a> as several of the logon picture options. Was Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/michkap\/archive\/2005\/12\/17\/505062.aspx\"> taking sides<\/a> in the political affairs of Austria? No, it was just a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p> I suspect the designers learned their lesson: Don&#8217;t use publishing jargon in bitmaps, even if it seems harmless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the betas of Windows&nbsp;Vista, the final set of sample logon pictures had yet to be determined, so a bunch of placeholder bitmaps were created. These placeholders consisted of the letters FPO in a box. FPO is a standard term in desktop publishing; it stands for For Position Only. In order to permit designers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>During the betas of Windows&nbsp;Vista, the final set of sample logon pictures had yet to be determined, so a bunch of placeholder bitmaps were created. These placeholders consisted of the letters FPO in a box. FPO is a standard term in desktop publishing; it stands for For Position Only. In order to permit designers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}