Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:13:02 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) Message-ID: <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr>
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--nextPart1146605.uJ3iQbMk4Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:40, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > 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? 98x101 :) I doubt it matters very much but 100 dpi is probably going to be the best=20 because it's a nice round number. GNOME doesn't 'pick' 96 DPI, it seems to be just hardcoded to use that valu= e=20 by default unless the user overrides it. =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 --nextPart1146605.uJ3iQbMk4Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDDE8+5ZPcIHs/zowRAqcSAJ99aAIVOq6YUmNDcnhW9gU1c/MMqACdHNDO YlictSbT71wdjgMsrjuOBsY= =q+sl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1146605.uJ3iQbMk4Q--
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