On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:19:25PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Regardless, my proposal is simply to have Xft always default to 96 > DPI, independent of the DPI value you put in X.
I read your proposal, and find it is a good one (well argued and everything). However, this means that the real dpi value has to be easily made accessible, as well as adequate font rendering, for all imaging and press applications (gimp, image viewers, gpdf, ggv, scribus, inkscape and co, and ideally Acrobat Reader, but hey). I am no programmer and do not know how easy it is to make it a switch (the case of the video projector is a good one, up to the point where somebody will want to proof a 4m×3m poster using gpdf and a video projector). I already know that I must set acroread to 137% to obtain real size. However, default margins in all widgets probably should be measured using DPI-related (the font DPI, not the other one) units. If one wants big fonts However, Keith's computation is a bit hard: I tested 120 dpi with my 1600x1200 and already find those fonts are gigantic. I would not like staying with 150. By the way, I cannot make sense of the font sizes in firefox. Looks like it uses 75 dpi or 72 dpi as a reference. -- JCD
