Or,
I think I'm confused. I have Arachne set for hires, but often will go
to lowers resolutions [using - sign] because of a page design. When I
do that, the font gets larger on my screen. Since lower resolution has
fewer pixels available on a page, it just makes sense that a 5 pixel
wide letter would take up more screen space at lower resolution than at
higher resolution.
Admittedly, I'm not set up like some of the guys to actually change the
base resolution "on the fly" to check things out. But since the font
style and size are set by the page code itself [unless you're lazy like
me and allow users' defaults to determin base size], I don't know how
Arachne would make any font smaller at lower resolutions.
Hey!! Someone explain all this, please?
l.d.
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 00:36:48 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> I've recently figured something while trying to setup a RAMDrive-based
> autoloading diskette of Arachne to use in my office.
> I was going to use it on a 386 that was there unused, and i've
> configured that version of Arachne to start at 640x480 (the video card is
> so old, cant even reach 800x600).
> And then it hit me - when using low-res, I always wandered why the
> pages look so "big", while in Netscape it somehow looked fine.
> Thats because Arachne always use the same font sizes for diffrent
> screen resolutions.
> If, for example, Arachne will use smaller font sized when using
> 640x480, instead of using the same fonts that were used on 1024x800,
> then the page itself would render alot more readable and comfortable
> to use.
> I sepose I have some mistakes and wrong assumptions in this letter,
> but basicly I hope that you understand the idea...
> What do you think?
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