(My apologies Ethan & Felix, I sent to your personal e-mails and not the list. Re-sending to the list).
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ethan Baldridge < et...@superiordocumentservices.com> wrote: > Conn said: > - Fonts currently look over-sized on the default configuration (96dpi, > 10pt, subpixel smoothing & slight hinting) > > This is the problem I believe. Why is the default always 96dpi instead of > the correct information from the EDID? > > $ xdpyinfo | grep -e "\(resolution\|dimensions\)" > dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (474x303 millimeters) > resolution: 90x88 dots per inch > Indeed. My laptop's LCD screen should be using 91dpi, but it uses 96dpi by default: c...@inspiron:~$ xdpyinfo | grep -e "\(resolution\|dimensions\)" dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (286x214 millimeters) resolution: 91x91 dots per inch > Also, the default smoothing and hinting is supposed to be different based > on whether you're connected to a CRT or an LCD - I'm pretty sure Ubuntu does > do this. If you connect to a CRT you'll see grayscale smoothing, full > hinting (or best contrast, I forget which). LCDs look better with subpixel > smoothing, although I usually set the hinting to best contrast anyway > though. :) But I can't test that changing hinting styles changes apparent > font size (it is supposed to, but very minimally for most [i.e. written to > spec] typefaces), as gnome-appearance-properties has been broken for me > since very early in the Karmic dev cycle. > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that all recent Ubuntu installations will default to subpixel smoothing & slight hinting - no auto-detection is performed. I can't be certain as I have been testing recent releases exclusively on laptops. It's too late now, but perhaps these two issues would have been suitable for the 100 papercuts project to assess.
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