> Doesn't matter. 12 point text on the display is 12 point text on the > display, screen, paper, whatever..., no matter how far away from it you > are. It's a fixed size. Absolutely correct, which is also why point size isn't actually what anyone wants on a display (paper yes, but monitor no). The absolutely correct measure would be angular diameter, but until the EDID info from the monitor includes distance of viewers, that ain't gonna happen (and it would be tricky to come up with a correct distance for a projection display in a conference room full of people sitting at different distances anyway :-). > > Lying about the DPI is merely the simplest way to make the fonts readable. > > True enough, but that's why we have problems. Not really, lying about the DPI has the exact same effect as providing the information the monitor needs to compute angular diameter of fonts without going to all the trouble of introducing complicated schemes to provide angular diameter info that winds up having the same effect as a much simpler lie.
