-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/2010 04:21:53, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2010-05-30 09:51, Gary Kline skrev: >> >> according to one fellow, the top display shows only 72dpi; >> that is why sans serif [like arial] render better than, say, >> times. does this still hold? > > No it does not. My display has 96 DPI and it is 12-15 years old and > 35 Kg.
Even that is pretty coarse nowadays. This Mac does 1920x1200 on a display approximately 370x230mm. Which is 132dpi. Even so, you still need special fonts to display clearly on screen: unless the hinting is done very carefully, letter spacing will appear to vary arbitrarily on anything below about 200dpi. Sans-serif similarly works well when there are fewer pixels per glyph. However, once you start printing, it's a different story. Even a really cheap laser printer will do 600dpi nowadays, and most are better than that. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwF9zQACgkQ8Mjk52CukIy/3ACfSgRkJ5VfABKE3EIZ/AUO4Cvk ZeAAnRIvywcMuLmWpirGSmpaLi0Q8Eh/ =ue8E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"