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Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling]
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Pavel Kankovsky |
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Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling] |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:41:52 +0200 (MET DST) |
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Keith Packard wrote:
> I'm actually quite tempted to fix the Xft resolution to 96dpi unless
> reconfigured by the user. It's clear that using 96dpi is better than
> using the "actual" display DPI.
Perhaps we should stop calling the value "dpi" because it is not supposed
to have any relation to (real) inches anymore?
> Anyone have a reason to consider using the "real" display DPI?
Occasionally, I need to fill boxes in some kind of preprinted form and it
helps (and saves a lot of paper and/or a lot of work with a ruler) when I
can display 1:1 preview on my screen and check it against the form. :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, (continued)
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Vadim Plessky, 2002/08/05
- Message not available
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Owen Taylor, 2002/08/03
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, 2002/08/04
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, 2002/08/04
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Owen Taylor, 2002/08/05
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, 2002/08/05
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Vadim Plessky, 2002/08/05
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Owen Taylor, 2002/08/05
- [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Joaquin Cuenca Abela, 2002/08/05
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Keith Packard, 2002/08/05
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling],
Pavel Kankovsky <=
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Vincent Caron, 2002/08/05
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Joaquin Cuenca Abela, 2002/08/05
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], James H. Cloos Jr., 2002/08/06
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Vadim Plessky, 2002/08/06
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Owen Taylor, 2002/08/05
- Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling], Joaquin Cuenca Abela, 2002/08/05
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Vadim Plessky, 2002/08/06
- Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, 2002/08/04