From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 10:43:39 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 BDE3A16A41F; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:43:39 +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 16F0443D45; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:43:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp214-161.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.214.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OAhM2u083513 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:13:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Panagiotis Astithas Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:13:02 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1146605.uJ3iQbMk4Q"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 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 10:43:39 -0000 --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--