Bug#218919: Probably not a bug but a feature

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

> Hi Nikitia,
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:13, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > Now I get OOo interface fonts sized correctly at my KDE desktop.
> > However, same font (Arial 12) in the document is displayed much
> > smaller whe scale is set to 100%. This may be workarounded by scaling
> > document to 130-150%, or by setting Xft.dpi. (I run X server at 75
> > dpi, use KDE, and this var is not set by default)
> >
> > Still I believe that OOo should display correclty-sized font at
> > scale=100%, so I am writing this info to BTS.
>
> Please confirm that you really really have a 75 dpi screen.  Is this an
> old 14" monitor running at 800x600 or similar?  Otherwise the 75 dpi
> setting is probably wrong.  What is the physical size of the screen,
> and what resolution are you running at?
>
> ...
>
> So this means that people who have their X server configured at a lower
> DPI setting will indeed get smaller fonts, but now they can zoom to
> 100% and display their documents at their true size.
>
> So, does that explain the behaviour to you, or do you think there is
> another problem lurking somewhere?

Thank you for your explanation.

Seems that we have different opinions on what "100% scale" is.
I thought that "100% scale" is one on which same font at same size (e.g. 
Arial 12) looks equal in the interface and in the document.
You seem to state that "100% scale" is one on which A4 page displayed on 
the screen is exactly 210 millimeters wide.

With your interpretation of "100% scale", OO currently works correctly.

I think that the situation when "12pt font" inside OOo and "12pt" font in 
system font configuration results in differently-sized fonts is confusing 
for users.
However, I don't insist on that.

Nikita