On 4 April 2014 08:35, Pharo4Stef <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't think there is any way for the VM to know the #pixelsPerInch of > the > > display, regardless of the display resolution. > > There is no api in the OS for that? It would be really strange that we > cannot know such information. > > There is, of course. Usually, display drivers can provide such information. But still you not always can know the physical dimensions of your display: - consider trying to measure DPI of display which actually a wall projector :)
Anyways, i doesn't really matters what is DPI of the screen.. since with with vector graphics you are free at any moment to zoom in/out things to most pleasant scale. And therefore, font size in points becomes more like a relative measurement, rather than absolute (you know that font with of 20 points size will be 2 times bigger than same font with 10 points size) > > Maybe that implies that some > > calibration would be needed in the image to relate font points to the > > physical display. > > > > Dave > > > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
