Daniel O'Connor wrote: > You really shouldn't change your DPI as a way of modifying your font size.. Sometimes that's the only way of getting the font sizes you want. As long as the DPIs of displays are relatively low, pixel size is extremely relevant to the shape and legibility of fonts, yet font sizes can usually only be specified as integer points. This causes problems, e.g. at the true DPI (116) of my laptop display, a font I want to use looks good at a pixel size of 12, but most programs don't let me select that size because the point size is somewhere between 7 and 8 (7.5 works in the few programs that allow it). In effect, the set of available font shapes is restricted by the DPI. I'd prefer to specify font sizes in pixels for UI fonts (like I did back when X11 programs used traditional X11 font specifications). The only parts of an UI I want to be DPI-sensitive are ones that display things with off-screen physical representations. Obviously this isn't a FreeBSD problem, but it's not really even an X11 or fontconfig problem, it's a problem with UI libraries and apps not letting the user specify fontconfig parameters properly (the size parameters are actually floating point values, and size can be specified as points or pixels).Received on Wed Aug 24 2005 - 12:06:49 UTC
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