On 04/09/2009 09:59 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > Note, however, that our concept of "size" of fonts is fundamentally > broken: the physical size in pixels of some physical size is *very* > seldom what you actually want; what you really want is the size of a > font in terms of angle: the physical size at some distance.
Yep. > The viewer is at a very different distance depending on whether the > application is on a PDA a foot from your eyes, several feet for a > desktop, and across the room for a projector. Just define DPI as "Dots Per Inch at an arm's length" and it becomes a very useful number again. > As far as I'm concerned, this is unfinished business... Indeed. behdad > - Jim _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
