[Bug #3414] Font size inconsistency

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http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=3414&group_id=99

Changes by: Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org>
Date: Thu 05/01/2003 at 12:11 (Europe/Stockholm)

------------------ Additional Follow-up Comments ----------------------------
Font sizes are in points, but all backends currently assume that the display is 
72dpi.

It would be very easy for me to have back-art render at any resolution given a 
scale factor (although it might take some tweaking to get it to look good). 
However, there's a lot of work that needs doing in back/Source/x11/ to 
translate window sizes and event positions and such.

(This is a backend issue, but there's no backend category. Could someone add 
one? (Adam?))




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Submitted by: stefanu                 Project: GNUstep                      
Submitted on: Thu 05/01/2003 at 09:56
Category:  Gui/AppKit                 Severity:  5 - Major                  
Bug Group:  Bug                       Resolution:  None                     
Assigned to:  None                    Status:  Open                         

Summary:  Font size inconsistency

Original Submission:  Font rendering does ignore screen resolution and font 
size seems to be in pixels instead of points. There are several problemswith 
this:

1. Applications have very small fonts when using large screen resolution. 
(compare to KDE, Gnome, Mozilla...)

2. Two different sizes are useed: one for screen other for printing. To be able 
to have comfortably readable screen fonts I am using sizes from 14 to 18. When 
I want to print a text or any other view, i have to change font size to smaller 
(normal) size, that is from 8 to 12. This is completely against basic GNUstep 
display principle - WYSIWIG and the behaviour is not as expected. (I do not 
have to care whether I am printing to screen or printer, so why I do have to 
care about using different fonts for screen and for printer?)

I consider it to be incosistency and I think that point size should be used (as 
expected).


Follow-up Comments
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Date: Thu 05/01/2003 at 12:11       By: alexm
Font sizes are in points, but all backends currently assume that the display is 
72dpi.

It would be very easy for me to have back-art render at any resolution given a 
scale factor (although it might take some tweaking to get it to look good). 
However, there's a lot of work that needs doing in back/Source/x11/ to 
translate window sizes and event positions and such.

(This is a backend issue, but there's no backend category. Could someone add 
one? (Adam?))



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