On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:48, Mpiktas wrote: > > > I'd say it's neither. :) The unit 'point' is defined based on 'real' > > spatial units, and DPI denotes the size of a pixel. Hence if the size in > > points remains constant and the DPI varies, the size in pixels varies as > > well. The idea is that the actual font size should always be the same > > regardless of the DPI of the display. > > Yet this exactly fails. After dpi change I have to decrease or increase font > size for it to be the same size as before dpi change.
Do you mean size in pixels or in say millimetres? The idea is to preserve the latter. > For example I can't use verdana font in gkrellm anymore, because I can't > choose smaller font size than > 8, and 8 is too big. This is with 100 dpi, with 75dpi on another box, verdana > 8 is too small. I seem to be able to enter sizes smaller than 8 manually. > The same with fixed font, it's xlfd is > > -misc-*-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-100-100-c-70-*-* > > yet on box with 81dpi it is Fixed 12, on box with 100dpi Fixed 10, when IMHO > it should be Fixed 13, regardles of dpi. Or am I wrong? Don't know much about XLFD, but the size here could be in pixels, and I think the 100-100 means the font was rasterized for 100 DPI. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
