On Thursday, Mar 25, 2004, at 12:12 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I have been working on a bunch of cross-platform patches and the different font sizes of each platform is driving me nuts. Anyone know the root of this or have any suggestions as to how to fix it?
The reason might be the different DPI conventions used on the various operating systems. I don't remember the exact figures, but the problem is the same if you do web design and has been discussed in this context to death. The general consensus in the design world is, to not use point-based or metric font sizes.
This sounds likely. Based on my informal survey, GNU/Linux and MacOS X are quite close in font size, with MacOS X being slightly larger, maybe due to anti-aliasing. But its not a big enough difference to cause big problems for me. But on Windows, that same font size is really small. If it is a DPI/point thing, maybe we could just fake the DPI number on Windows to get it at least closer to the GNU/Linux and MacOS X font sizes. This would also help out a lot on the help pages.
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