Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote... > > > >Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > > > >[reformatted for 80 cols] > > > >> How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper > >> (eg 1/72 inch per point) size? > > > >Can't do 72dpi, but you can do 75dpi, which is close enough. Take a look > >at your font path (in /etc/X11/XF86Config by default on potato; this may > >well be different for woody/sid). Make sure the 75dpi entries precede the > >100dpi entries, then restart X.
[80 cols, again.] > Maybe I did not make my question clear, or perhaps I'm just to dumb > to understand the answer. > > Let me elaborate. As I increase the resolutin (more pixels) on the > screen, the font's just get smaller. I don't think this is the way > it should work. I suspect I have something configured wrong. At one > point in time, during the install I was asked what size monitor I > had, I answered 17". Well now I have a 19" atached to this > system. How do I tell X what the dimensions of the screen are, so > that it can display say a 12 point font as something aproaching a > real 12 point typeface, instead of some unreadably small size? Ah. Now I understand. Rather unfortunately, this may not be possible. There's a great deal to X font handling that I'm still learning, so it's possible that I'm overlooking something, but I don't think we can do this. As far as I can tell, X generally treats fonts in terms of pixels, not points. I don't know of a feature through which you can automatically rescale every font. You can usually change the fonts on an application-by-application basis, typically through X resource database settings. Or, you can follow my earlier advice, but since your fonts are too small, put the 75dpi entries *AFTER* the 100dpi entries. This won't change everything, but it will help. If anyone else knows a better way to address this, please let us know; I'm sort of curious myself. Richard
