> From: David Cortright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 09:27:21 -0700 > To: Entourage Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Couple of questions > >>> The answer is pretty simple, Kirk. Work in Word at 125% or 150%. That's what >>> I do (125%), At a high resolution, 10 pt look too tiny on screen. But 10 pt >>> is often better for printing than 12pt anyway, so 10pt @ 125% is just right >>> all ways round. >> >> No, it's not. I write mainly manuscripts, which follow very particular >> guidelines for type setting (12 pt. Courier, never Courier New, >> double-spaced, left aligned). I also don't like 10 pt. text -- it's too >> small on paper, and it forces me to zoom Word, which sometimes doesn't track >> the space between words perfectly. It's another annoying workaround for >> something that shouldn't need a workaround. Why should I have to work in a >> way that I don't like to work to accommodate the incomplete functionality of >> the email authoring portion of Entourage? >> >> Why DO fonts change sizes between Word and Entourage? That just makes no >> sense. > > I think the problem you're describing is the classic DPI difference of 72 > for the Mac and 96 for the PC (which turns out to be a ratio of 1.33). Word > documents composed on Windows at 100% look best on the Mac viewed at 75%, > and Word documents composed on the Mac at 100% look best on Windows at 133%. > > This text size discrepancy caused by DPI differences applies to e-mail as > well. I know we did a bunch of work in Entourage 10.1.4 to try to best > accommodate users sending mail between Entourage and PC clients like > Outlook. Taking a look at how the Word:Send To:HTML Recipient works, it > looks like we are properly setting the point size in the source. It might > appear bigger if the HTML renderer is displaying at 96 DPI, which I think IE > does by default.
Well, the HTML renderer in question is Entourage, not IE. But thanks for the info, its makes the situation much clearer. I appreciate it. Kirk ----- Support Equality for All Americans. Vote for John Kerry. http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/glbt/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
