It's more than that... Windows font sizes are *exactly* 96/72 bigger than the typographical standard. And I do mean *exactly*!
Personally, I think that the font designers originally "scaled up" their fonts so that they would appear correct on a 96 DPI display, and the people working on the text internals also "scaled up" their internals so that 72 DPI fonts would appear correct on a 96 DPI display. Take both together, and the font sizes will be exactly 96/72 too big. On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Greg Bowman wrote: > OK, it was the DPI thing. I just hadn't noticed it until now when I > had > and RB EditField next to the Einhugur Stylegrid. It looks like the > Stylegrid handles the font/DPI difference for you, whereas the RB > native > controls don't. Aaron had a nice function listed on the forums with > declares to get the display DPI and a blog piece about it that > helped me > solve it. > > Greg > > Greg Bowman wrote: >> I just noticed this - my font size selections in RB07r2 (WinXP) >> appear >> smaller than they do in other programs. That is to say, if I have an >> editfield, statictext or listbox using a font like, say, Arial >> Narrow at >> 12 point, it looks the same as Arial Narrow at 9 point in Excel or >> Notepad. Other fonts I tried exhibit the same symptoms. Anybody else >> noticed this? >> >> >> Greg >> _______________________________________________ >> Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: >> <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> >> >> Search the archives: >> <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> -- Glenn L. Austin <>< Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
