On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 13:27 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Absolutely true, and absolutely the point. If you specify a 12 point > font on a 46" 1920x1080 display, you will wind up drawing some > random smudge of bits that is indeed able to fit on a line that > is 12/72 of an inch high, but there aren't enough frigging pixels > to render the font in any fashion that makes it remotely possible > to discern what the character actually represents. This true but it shouldn't be. It's true because the sizes of things in X are defined in terms of pixels, and it's wrong because 12pt type is 12pt, no matter what medium it's on. It's an absolute size, not a given number of pixels. The fault is with how X works. Probably no-one remembers it now, but the NeWS display server defined by Sun and based on Postscript did actually manage real sizes, not pixel dimensions. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
