On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:59, Doug Barton wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > You really shouldn't change your DPI as a way of modifying your font > > size.. > > > > Your display really is 75 (well 76) DPI > > Ca/usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk/n you explain a little more about that? I've never really understood the > interactions of all these different elements. Well DPI is the number of dots per inch your monitor shows. When you say "I want a 8 point font" you mean "please make the font a size such that a lowercase x is 8/32 inches high on my display device". So if you have a 76 DPI monitor it ends up 19 pixels high, and for a 300dpi printer it would be 75 pixels high, but as long as the DPI settings are correct they will be the same physical size. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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