On Friday 14 March 2003 02:44, David Z Maze wrote: > dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian has a lot of fonts .... what is the difference between > > > > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi > > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, > > > > I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? > > If I ask for > > -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-110-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 > > but there are only 10 and 12 point Helvetica fonts in > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi (I asked for 11.0 point), the :unscaled > version won't return a font at all, but the not-unscaled one will try > to scale one or the other to the requested size. This is bad with > bitmapped fonts, since you don't wind up with smooth edges (or even > consistent-width lines, often). > > > Also if I have the 100dpi versions, is there any advantage to having the > > 75dpi versions, are these just less memory intensive versions of the same > > thing ? > > It's not memory, it's how big your screen is. Try this exercise: take > the horizontal resolution of your display, divide by .8, and divide > again by the diagonal size of your monitor in inches. If this number > is closer to 75, the 75dpi fonts are closer to accurate for you; if > it's closer to 100, the 100dpi fonts are better. In any case you can > be happy with scalable (Type 1 or TrueType) fonts. "Happiness" here > is relative, too, it's really how much you care about a "12 point" > font being exactly 1/6 inch tall. > > (It turns out that X does have a concept of display pitch, and > 'xdpyinfo' will tell you this, among many other things. The last time > I looked at an X server source, though, X would only hand out 75 or > 100 dpi fonts unless you asked really nicely [e.g., with explicit > resolutions in the font name]; modern XFree86 might be different. I > think the newer font-rendering libraries try to use the reported > display resolution. Getting this sort of thing right can be tricky, > but as I understand it, the Unix world has a lot more hope than > Windows...)
Many thanks for helping to clear things up, it starts to make a bit more sense ... Do you know of a web page where I can read up in more detail ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
