Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling

[Vadim Plessky]

On Saturday 03 August 2002 8:28 pm, Owen Taylor wrote:
|  Owen Taylor <address@hidden> writes:
|  > > It turns out that some Linux distro configure X with a 100dpi
|  > > resolution. This makes font slightly larger than the Windows ones for
|  > > the same point size. You can check your X resolution with
|  > > 'xdpyinfo|grep resolution'.
|  >
|  > The resolution there is not the same one used to convert points
|  > to pixels. Limbo uses 96 dpi by default for that. Under GNOME,
|  > you can change the resolution for font points=>pixels with:
|  >
|  >  Preferences/Fonts,  Details button.
|  >
|  > I'm not sure why the fonts for the original poster weren't the same
|  > size for Windows and Limbo (was it with Limbo?). It sounds like some
|  > app was selecting font sizes in pixels, not points.
|
|  OK, I think I need to alias address@hidden to
|  foot-in-mouth-list ;-), seem to always make mistakes when posting
|  here... I (for some reason) thought I was replying to a post
|  about the current Red Hat beta, which does behave as above.
|
|  Most Linux setups will either use the physical screen resolution
|  (for Xft) or a fixed value of 75 or 100dpi (for rendering via the
|  core  X protocol)

Hi Owen!

AFAIK several graphics adapters supported under XFree86 (ATI and Matrox, in 
particular) can auto-detect dpi during initialization / X startup.
So, there is no need to pre-define 96dpi if user has modern graphics adapter.

|
|  Regards,
|                                          Owen

Regards,
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