On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Andy Isaacson wrote: > I think Mark's idea of snapping to 75 or 100 DPI is a good one, but I'd > say that this should only be done if the delta is less than... 15% > maybe. Perhaps there should be standard values at 125 and 150 as well, > since some systems are starting to come with higher-resolution LCDs. I > think even the Apple iBook has a fairly high-res display?
I thought (hoped?) that the scalable font renderers could cope with unusual dot pitches. If not what is the problem ? Come to that, there is no good reason why the average application should be using fonts where it matters. If I have two 1024x768 displays, one a 14" laptop and the other a 50" plasma display, I usually want the text to be the same number of pixels high in them both, not the same point-size. If we snap to standard values there is no incentive for applications to be fixed. Worse those that are may just add the new snap-points to a list, shifting but not fixing the problem. I vote we leave the DPI alone, then programs which care can get things right. I'd like a CAD program to be able to tell me whether the drawing on my screen is twice life size or one-twentieth. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
