(My apologies Ethan & Felix, I sent to your personal e-mails and not the list. Re-sending to the list).<br>
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On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ethan Baldridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ethan@superiordocumentservices.com" target="_blank">ethan@superiordocumentservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Conn said:<br>
- Fonts currently look over-sized on the default configuration (96dpi, 10pt, subpixel smoothing & slight hinting)<br>
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</div>This is the problem I believe. Why is the default always 96dpi instead of the correct information from the EDID?<br>
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$ xdpyinfo | grep -e "\(resolution\|dimensions\)"<br>
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (474x303 millimeters)<br>
resolution: 90x88 dots per inch<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Indeed. My laptop's LCD screen should be using 91dpi, but it uses 96dpi by default:<br><br>conn@inspiron:~$ xdpyinfo | grep -e "\(resolution\|dimensions\)"<br>
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (286x214 millimeters)<br> resolution: 91x91 dots per inch<br> <br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Also,
the default smoothing and hinting is supposed to be different based on
whether you're connected to a CRT or an LCD - I'm pretty sure Ubuntu
does do this. If you connect to a CRT you'll see grayscale smoothing,
full hinting (or best contrast, I forget which). LCDs look better with
subpixel smoothing, although I usually set the hinting to best contrast
anyway though. :) But I can't test that changing hinting styles changes
apparent font size (it is supposed to, but very minimally for most
[i.e. written to spec] typefaces), as gnome-appearance-properties has
been broken for me since very early in the Karmic dev cycle.<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><div><br>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
that all recent Ubuntu installations will default to subpixel smoothing
& slight hinting - no auto-detection is performed. I can't be
certain as I have been testing recent releases exclusively on laptops.<br>
<br>It's too late now, but perhaps these two issues would have been suitable for the 100 papercuts project to assess.<br></div></div>
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