From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 08:10:45 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 46F0416A41F; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:10:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from fly.ebs.gr (fly.ebs.gr [62.103.84.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDCF43D48; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:10:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from ebs.gr (root@hal.ebs.gr [10.1.1.2]) by fly.ebs.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7O8AfID074193; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from [10.1.1.163] (pc163.ebs.gr [10.1.1.163]) by ebs.gr (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7O8AfgL036964; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Message-ID: <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:38 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: EBS Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241028.07530.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430BCD8E.9040803@FreeBSD.org> <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Doug Barton , 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 08:10:45 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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? > > 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 > 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 > printer it would be 75 pixels high, but as long as the DPI settings are > correct they will be the same physical size. > What would you recommend for a WXGA screen (1280x800) that reports: (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (98, 101) GNOME picks a default dpi of 96, but what would be the correct value? 98, 99, 100 or 101? Thanks, Panagiotis