Dr Andrew C Aitchison writes:
AA> I thought (hoped?) that the scalable font renderers could cope with
AA> unusual dot pitches.
The scalable renderers will indeed handle reasonable font pitches fine.
The only issue I can see is the one of delta hints in TrueType
fonts. Delta hints apply to one
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, safemode wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2001 00:14, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, safemode wrote:
> > > The program i used to see what dpi i was at was xdpyinfo.the fonts
> > > may have been at a correct resolution, but since the display wasn't it
> > > l
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Keith Packard wrote:
> Once you start with this postulate, the logical consequence is that the
> effective angular size of the pixel depends solely on the number of pixels
> on the screen. I don't know whether this depends on the horizontal or
> vertical size, but the ever
Around 15 o'clock on Nov 26, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> Come to that, there is no good reason why the average application
> should be using fonts where it matters. If I have two 1024x768 displays,
> one a 14" laptop and the other a 50" plasma display, I usually want the
> text to be the same
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> I think Mark's idea of snapping to 75 or 100 DPI is a good one, but I'd
> say that this should only be done if the delta is less than... 15%
> maybe. Perhaps there should be standard values at 125 and 150 as well,
> since some systems are starting to c
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:40:25AM -0500, safemode wrote:
> unless 1280x1024 dimensions gives 87x96 resolution, then it was wrong. If it
"How long is a piece of string?"
The resolution depends on the monitor size. XFree86 put the values it
used to calculate that resolution in the log file
(/v
On Monday 26 November 2001 00:14, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, safemode wrote:
> > The program i used to see what dpi i was at was xdpyinfo.the fonts
> > may have been at a correct resolution, but since the display wasn't it
> > looked all sorts of messed up. The problem here
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, safemode wrote:
> The program i used to see what dpi i was at was xdpyinfo.the fonts may
> have been at a correct resolution, but since the display wasn't it looked all
> sorts of messed up. The problem here isn't with end user apps. Something
> was not being detect
On Sunday 25 November 2001 23:22, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> [Mark Vojkovich]
>
> > It's not probed via DDC. The monitor size is, and a DPI
> > calculation is made from that and the resolution, which of course,
> > makes no sense at all for virtual desktops.
>
> The X server knows th
[Mark Vojkovich]
> It's not probed via DDC. The monitor size is, and a DPI
> calculation is made from that and the resolution, which of course,
> makes no sense at all for virtual desktops.
The X server knows the largest physical resolution. Snap the DPI to
100 or 75, whichever is cl
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, safemode wrote:
> On Sunday 25 November 2001 17:59, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 08:34, safemode wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 November 2001 02:18, safemode wrote:
> > > > for some reason it's defaulting to resolution:87x96 dots per inch
> > > > i'm going t
On Sunday 25 November 2001 17:59, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 08:34, safemode wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 November 2001 02:18, safemode wrote:
> > > for some reason it's defaulting to resolution:87x96 dots per inch
> > > i'm going to try running at 100x100 and see if that fixes t
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 08:34, safemode wrote:
> On Sunday 25 November 2001 02:18, safemode wrote:
> >
> > for some reason it's defaulting to resolution:87x96 dots per inch
> > i'm going to try running at 100x100 and see if that fixes things
>
> Yes, this fixed things for 4.1.0.1. I have no i
On Sunday 25 November 2001 02:18, safemode wrote:
> I seem to be having an issue with fonts with both X 4.1.0.1 and 4.1.99.x .
> In the CVS of X, i cant get the fixed fonts to work at all. When i get an
> alias to work for the fixed font on some other font, it says my cursor font
> is unloadabl
I seem to be having an issue with fonts with both X 4.1.0.1 and 4.1.99.x .
In the CVS of X, i cant get the fixed fonts to work at all. When i get an
alias to work for the fixed font on some other font, it says my cursor font
is unloadable. I have no idea why because it's there. No compil
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