> Am 20.07.2021 um 13:09 schrieb denis.ma...@unibe.ch:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I have to reproduce a book layout that was done in Adobe Indesign, and I 
> don’t really manage to get the right fontsizes, i.e. according to Acrobat Pro 
> the fonts are consistently a bit smaller then expected.
> That may well be an Adobe problem, it’s just that I have to aim for rather 
> specific target values... As you can see below the deviation is not so 
> significant with the normal font size and bigger sizes, but more so with the 
> smaller sizes.

The TeX point is smaller than the PostScript/DTP point.
Use the unit "bp" to get the same sizes as in desktop apps.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

Hraban

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