Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:49:58 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) Message-ID: <430CDD76.9060005@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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 > because it's a nice round number. > > GNOME doesn't 'pick' 96 DPI, it seems to be just hardcoded to use that value > by default unless the user overrides it. Yeah, it seems that GNOME is imitating Windows in this. On Windows XP I get 96 dpi hardcoded, but I can change it to 120 dpi or some custom value. Funny, even Microsoft faces this issue... Thanks, Panagiotis
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