Re: [OT font resolution -- was Re: [Devel] TrueType font-scaling]

[Vadim Plessky]

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 1:22 am, Keith Packard wrote:
|  Around 23 o'clock on Aug 5, "Joaquin Cuenca Abela" wrote:
|  > Are we going to pick the right value if we just leave the dpi parameter
|  > unspecified in the pattern that we pass to fontconfig?
|
|  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.
|
|  I'm hoping to get a chance to do actual research into what this DPI value
|  should be in a variety of environments so that we can use a better value
|  than '96'.

This would be great.

|
|  Anyone have a reason to consider using the "real" display DPI?

yes, I am against default 96dpi *for everyone*
See my another mail with some thoughts about dpi.

|
|  Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab
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