Zan Lynx wrote: > Font size isn't the point (hah) of DPI. DPI should reflect the > *REAL* DPI of your display.
This is one of those ideas that looks great on paper, but falls down in practice. > With a correct DPI setting, a 72 point headline onscreen should be > exactly the same size as the same headline printed on paper. Which 99 times out of 100 is *not* what the user wants! Under most circumstances, users expect that running the same application with the same data will result in the same on-screen presentation. They certainly don't expect that their web site layouts will look different on their 100dpi desktop monitor vs. their 147dpi laptop, when both are exactly the same 1920x1200 resolution. See the complaint that started this thread -- NVIDIA starts reporting a correct DPI for a very high-pitch screen and everything goes wacky. Are there meaningful real-world uses of the DPI setting? Sure. Scaling the display automagically ain't one of 'em. Andy _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
