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Re: font - dpi settings ignored?
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henry atting |
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Re: font - dpi settings ignored? |
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:58:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>, James Cloos
> <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>> > Xft.dpi: 96
>>>> Could you tell me what does Xft.dpi means?
>
>>>> Is it a way to tell X applications to assume the specified DPI
>
>> > In short, yes.
>
>> More specifically, it tells libXft to use said DPI. If it exists,
>> libXft adds that value (a double) to the patterns it sends on to
>> fontconfig.
>
>> If it does not exist, libXft uses DisplayHeight * 25.4 / DisplayHeightMM.
>
>> I believe it uses those two (prefering the Xft.dpi value) only if the
>> application hasn't already specified FC_DPI in the fontconfig pattern.
>
> Thank you for the explanation. But, then, it seems that the
> DPI setting affects only how to convert point-size to
> pixel-size. But, in his screenshot:
>
> http://www.literaturlatenight.de/pic.png
>
> the rendering is apparently affected. Are there any
> possibility that what is wrong is not Xft.dpi but some other
> Xft setting (e.g. RGB)?
Since I noticed that the font was rendered correctly on a virtual
debian/lenny (and since I wanted to reinstall my system for some time
past) I installed debian anew.
I either removed `x-ttcidfont' from the system.
Now everything works fine.
Thanks,
henry