Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:56:14 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) Message-ID: <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <430BCD8E.9040803@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241028.07530.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430BCD8E.9040803@FreeBSD.org>
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--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--
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