[Gambas-user] The hell of font size

[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 20 September 2004 10:12, Eilert wrote:
> Hi Benoit,
>
> first of all: thanks a lot for that phantastic Gambas, it really helps
> me, and it is terriffic to work with it. I already did 2 little projects
> with it, both work well in a multi-user environment, no problems yet.
>
> > So I decided that all screen font size will be internally modified so
> > that the screen resolution is always 96 DPI. This is the mean of the
> > Font.Resolution property. The Desktop.Resolution property returns what
> > X-Window says about your screen.
>
> I understand that, and I think it's ok. But what about printer fonts? I
> found that e. g. Courier 12 appears like 14 on the printer and Times 12
> appears as something like 12.5 or so. The same fonts printed from other
> programs are of correct size. Strange thing, isn't it? Printer fonts
> shouldn't be related to screen resolution, should they?
>
> So what I meant was that maybe there is a relation, maybe there isn't...
> You can easily get the fonts on screen right, but when you say
>
> printer.font.size = 12
>
> you should rely on the font be printed as 12 pt, not bigger. I guess
> there is something going wrong in the way Gambas is talking to the
> printer object (Qt bug?). It won't have to do with the screen resolution.
>
> In my little program I set font.size to 10 to let it print with about 12
> pt.
>
> Regards
>
> Rolf
>

Arg! I made a bug... The printer font was resized like screen fonts. I will 
fix that in the next version, so that printer font is never resized.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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