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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Font size setting inconsistency in kcontrol with DPI > 75 (more
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () conectiva ! com ! ar>
Date:       2001-01-27 18:47:41
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> On Sam, 27 Jan 2001, Lars Knoll wrote:
> 
> > > > Point sizes. Higher resolution displays will come up more often in the
> > > > future, and we don't want to have huge fonts on these.
> > > so you're referring to pixel sizes ?
> > No, I was referring to point size. Point size is independent of display 
> > resolution. a 72pt font should always be about 1 inch high, independent of 
> > the display. a 72px font is 1inch high on a 72 dpi display, but only .6 inch 
> > high on 120dpi.
> 
> I know. but thats exactly why the people complain that the fonts are huge. 
> they expect that when they select 1600x1200 fonts are much smaller than when 
> using 1024x768. 

What can I say? They are wrong ;-)
I did some checking and apparently point sizes are working ok for me with
XFree 4.0.1. At least when I change resolution, fonts stay the same
physical size.

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