[PD] Pd Fontsizes

[Peter Plessas]

Dear Roman, Claude, List,

today i had the opportunity to test both of your recommendations
regarding different font sizes on identical machines.

Claude's hint was very nice, to query the DPI setting via:
> grep DPI /var/log/Xorg.o.log

the nvidia README in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/ gave an additional hint:
> xdpyinfo | grep dimension

Roman was right too, specifying the DPI value at X startup. You can even
put this inside your xorg.conf as:
> Option "DPI" "85 x 86"

thanks for the help!

regards, Peter

* Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> [2008-02-16 15:50]:
> if the same os is some linux flavour, it is probably because of
> different display settings that result in different font scalings. i
> noticed, that on computers with smaller resolution sometimes tinier
> fonts are used. unfortunately, i don't know what the correct solution
> for this problem is, if there is anything that could be considered
> *correct*. however, i sometimes was able to solve it by giving the
> option '-dpi 80' when doing 'startx'. alternativel it might also help to
> specify 'DisplaySize X Y' in 'Section "Monitor"' in your xorg.conf.
> Making the Display bigger than it actually is scales down fonts and vice
> versa.
> 
> roman
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 11:29 +0100, Peter Plessas wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > What reason can there be if the same patch does not display the same 
> > fontsizes on two different computers, both running the same OS and the 
> > same Pd version?
> > 
> > regards, PP
> > 
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