[PD-dev] making the font size the same cross-platform

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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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