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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: WYSIWYG in KDE3
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-10-18 20:45:14
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 21:57, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Don, 18 Okt 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Printing fixed-fonts with KDE-CVS of last week was horribly slow and used
> > a non-fixed font. I haven't tried with the latest Qt3 yet, but it doesn't
> > look good.
>
> I guess the actual problem is that it assumes 75dpi instead of screen dpi
> during printing.

Hmmm???? But aren't printers using dpi values of 300, 600 and even way up?

I guess BTW that Ferdinand's problem is the dpi value on screen. A 12-point 
courier font is awfully large on paper. If you don't adjust your screen's dpi 
value to match the _real_ dpi value it will look pretty well on screen 
though, at least for higher resolutions.

Strictly speaking a point is a length unit that can be mapped one-to-one to a 
millimeter. Problem is that your computer needs to know the physical size of 
your monitor before it knows how many pixels are one point. Needless to say 
that not many systems are properly configured.

At least mine isn't, though I am aware of it and don't really care. If you 
want true WYSIWYG, though, you definitely need to adjust the dpi setting to 
match. A printed n-point text next to the same n-point text on the screen 
should be exactly the same size, or the dpi setting is technically broken.

Gimp has a nice wizard that guides you through this. Maybe KDE needs one as 
well? I know this is the work of the distros, but I get the impression that 
they hardly help you here, and an end-user only cares whether it works or 
not, not who actually is responsible for it. And it's not as off-topic for 
KDE as for example hardware configuration.

Martijn
 
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