On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > So, did you learn why the lower res fonts look better? It seems | > counter-intuitive to me. | | Because "resolution" for bitmap fonts under X has nothing to do with | the real size of your screen, just with the size it was designed to be | shown at. A font labeled as 16pt in the 100dpi font set will measure | 16pts on a screen that is actually 100dpi, but will have more pixels | than a font labeled as 16pt in the 75dpi font set. | | When you are using bitmap fonts, unless your screen happens to be 75dpi | and you're using the 75dpi font set, or your screen is 100dpi and | you're using the 100dpi font set, you aren't actually seeing the point | sizes you're asking for.
Ah, ok. | I personally feel it best to forget about bitmap fonts entirely and | _only_ use scalable fonts How do I do that? That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or not? Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or are some of them scalable? Thanks, -D
