Re: Resolution indpendence | |
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On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:07 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:59:25AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I very much doubt that people working with a lot of text will generally > > prefer smaller fonts. I'd rather suspect the opposite... > > You'd be wrong. From my experience in a research lab where people > handles lots of text, people tend to go for the smallest font size > their eyesight can cope with. Some of them bump on the pixel grid, > others don't. That's with 1600x1200 20" screens (i.e. exactly > 100dpi). Ignoring half of them would be stupid. > What stops them from selecting a small (bitmap even) font? I don't see what the DPI really has to do with it. It only provides scaling consistency between physical devices. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
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