Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:38 +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: <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241028.07530.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430BCD8E.9040803@FreeBSD.org> <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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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
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