Re: gtk, fonts, locales

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com>]

Hmm, OK.  I'll have to play around with it some more then.  I honestly
think my X/fonts setup is broken somewhere, which is why I'm having so
many problems.

Thanks,
Sean Etc.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:24:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:28:42PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > How do you mean, larger?  The 75dpi fonts do indeed display "bigger" on
> > my system.
> 
> You are mistaken.  Take a PCF file with a given name that appears in
> both the 75dpi and 100dpi directories, and xfd them both according to
> their XLFD names in fonts.dir:
> 
> xfd -fn '-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--8-80-75-75-m-50-iso10646-1'
> xfd -fn '-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--11-80-100-100-m-60-iso10646-1'
> 
> (Hint: the one with the "75"s in it is a 75dpi font, and the one with
> the "100"s in it is a 100dpi font".)
> 
> That 100dpi fonts display larger shouldn't be too great a shock if one
> realizes that there is a proportional relationship between "dots" and
> "pixels", the fact that most computer monitors are raster-based devices,
> and that actual dpi increases with resolution for a fixed physical
> screen size.
> 
> -- 
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