Peter Brigham MD wrote:
On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
Apparently numbers less than 8 are interpreted as HTML relative size
and larger numbers specify point size.
Could this have something to do with the recently mentioned problems
with font sizes on Unix platforms? If somehow the rev unix engine is
mixing these up, then something intended to be size 14 could display
at size 4. But I know very little about this stuff, it's just a
thought.
Actually it's the way web browsers handled it a long time ago when
"real"
font sizes were introduced; they had to remain backwards compatible
with the
previous method but also adopt the new one.
OK. But could this be what isn't working right in Rev on the unix
platforms, or is that unlikely?
The main issue as far as Rev goes seems to be that Rev is doing what
Firefox still does, calculating point sizes with an assumption of 72-dpi
resolution, while modern OSes are largely resolution-independent.
But check out the links in these posts and you'll find that only tells
part of the story:
<http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2010-March/135800.html>
<http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2010-March/135822.html>
Like so many in the Linux world have noted, Gnome simply renders too
big. From the bug reports in the Gnome and Ubuntu bug databases it
appears that there's an extra level of translation happening in Gnome,
but before they jump on a fix they need to figure out what to do for
backward compatibility. Sticky issue; glad it's theirs and not mine. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com
revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv
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