On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:55:01AM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote: > > there is one caveat, that if you really want to see exactly , say 16 points > sized font on your screen, > it is not possible without knowing the display resolution - how many pixels > in one inch (hence > #pixelsPerInch ). > Unfortunately, our VMs don't give us a way to determine DPI of display.. > and so, it is always 96 :/ > > pheww....
I don't think there is any way for the VM to know the #pixelsPerInch of the display, regardless of the display resolution. Maybe that implies that some calibration would be needed in the image to relate font points to the physical display. Dave
