From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 02:26:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0AA16A41F; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:26:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C4843D6D; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:26:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.31]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7O2QJ5v078094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:56:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Doug Barton Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:56:14 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241028.07530.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430BCD8E.9040803@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <430BCD8E.9040803@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart27436560.HHjvZNrfpW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.82 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:26:30 -0000 --nextPart27436560.HHjvZNrfpW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:59, Doug Barton wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > You really shouldn't change your DPI as a way of modifying your font > > size.. > > > > Your display really is 75 (well 76) DPI > > Ca/usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk/n you explain a little more about that= ?=20 I've never really understood the > interactions of all these different elements. Well DPI is the number of dots per inch your monitor shows. When you say "I want a 8 point font" you mean "please make the font a size= =20 such that a lowercase x is 8/32 inches high on my display device". So if you have a 76 DPI monitor it ends up 19 pixels high, and for a 300dpi= =20 printer it would be 75 pixels high, but as long as the DPI settings are=20 correct they will be the same physical size. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart27436560.HHjvZNrfpW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDC9rH5ZPcIHs/zowRAmjfAJ9BbcC4sL92NHHx3upfFUbgwagycwCfWxV3 jiZznFD6WTxQ50IHEyHoaNI= =ySPh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart27436560.HHjvZNrfpW--