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New issue 19614 by guillaume.ryder: Font picker sample text is too large
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19614
Chrome Version : 4.0.201.1 (Official Build 23222)
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 4: ?
Firefox 3.x: OK (uses pixels everywhere, does not use native font picker)
IE 7: N/A (does not let the user choose the default font size)
IE 8: N/A (does not let the user choose the default font size)
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to Options/Under the hood/Change fonts and language settings
2. Click one of the "Change" buttons
What is the expected result?
The "Sample" box should match the font preview area in the "Fonts and
Languages" dialog box.
What happens instead?
The text in the "Sample" box is too large, as if the size was interpreted
in points instead of pixels
(see fonts-chooser.png attached). The font preview areas in the "Fonts and
Languages" dialog box (see
fonts-options.png attached) is rendered correctly.
The problem is that the font picker assumes that the font size is in
points, while Chrome uses pixels
as font size unit. Personally, I think that font size in points is more
familiar to users (most word
processors use points, at least by default), but I can understand that
Chrome prefers using pixels as
default unit.
Nevertheless, the font picker UI is very confusing and should be fixed: not
only the "Sample" box
displays the text larger than Chrome will, but the default sizes in the
list are meant to be in points
(hence it is difficult to select standard sizes: for instance, 11pt = 13px;
11 is in the list, but not
13 making it difficult to select the pixel size corresponding to 11pt).
I can see two solutions to this problem:
- convert the pixel size into points before giving it to the font picker;
drawback: the font size
displayed by the font picker does not match numerically the font size
displayed in the options dialog
box; it is also confusing for users used to sizes in points
- use points everywhere in the UI: do the above + display the font size in
points in the options
dialog box; drawback: it changes the current Chrome convention
Related bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7806
Attachments:
fonts-options.png 6.7 KB
fonts-chooser.png 6.8 KB
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