Re: SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
| 
| > So, did you learn why the lower res fonts look better?  It seems
| > counter-intuitive to me.
| 
| Because "resolution" for bitmap fonts under X has nothing to do with
| the real size of your screen, just with the size it was designed to be
| shown at.  A font labeled as 16pt in the 100dpi font set will measure
| 16pts on a screen that is actually 100dpi, but will have more pixels
| than a font labeled as 16pt in the 75dpi font set.
| 
| When you are using bitmap fonts, unless your screen happens to be 75dpi
| and you're using the 75dpi font set, or your screen is 100dpi and
| you're using the 100dpi font set, you aren't actually seeing the point
| sizes you're asking for.  

Ah, ok.

| I personally feel it best to forget about bitmap fonts entirely and
| _only_ use scalable fonts

How do I do that?  That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or
not?  Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or
are some of them scalable?

Thanks,
-D