On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:12:37PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> Dekel> But as I explained before, if you don't want to use scalable
> Dekel> fonts (because you don't have good font/good renderer), but you
> Dekel> need to display a font at 60 points, while the largest bitmap
> Dekel> font is 20 points, it is preferable to use the scalable font.
>
> What I had in mind is that we are not wysiwyg anway so the exact font
> size is not that important. Think about the case of _small_ fonts: if
> I do not have a hand-drawn 6pt font, I certainly do not want a scaled
> version of anything, but a readable 10pt font instead.
But if you have a high DPI display, you would like to use large font sizes.
If for example you use 30pt font for standard text, it is possible that you
don't have larger bitmap fonts, and therefore, when you try to display a
\large{} text, it will appear the same size as normal text.
