On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:55:42PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > [Since I've received no answer on debian-x@, I'm trying a wider forum.] Sorry, I must have overlooked it. > In the `intlfonts' package I maintain, there is a lot of fonts, without > being classified by their dpi. So I'd like to know how can I find out > the resolution of an X11 font? > > I guess the resolution is defined by the SIZE parameter in the BDF file. > Is it right? Yes, for BDF fonts, I believe that is correct. Specifically, the second and third values are the horizontal and vertical dpi values. > If so, then I have another question. There is a lot of > various numbers there, including 72, 75, 80, 100, and 150. Where should > the fonts with the resolution different of 75 and 100 go to? (`misc' is > defined as the place for "character-cell fonts, cursor fonts, and other > low-resolution fonts" by Debian Policy, so it doesn't look to me like > the right place generally.) Well, I think this package would be the first that had high-resolution BDFs that used a size other than 75 or 100dpi, so as the author of that piece of policy I'd say it's perfectly fair for you to put those fonts in the -misc package. Are all the fonts represented at each of these 5 different resolutions, or is this more a mixed bag of fonts, some at 75, some at 80, some at 100, and so forth? -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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