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Re: font - dpi settings ignored?
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Kenichi Handa |
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Re: font - dpi settings ignored? |
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:37:50 +0900 |
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In article <address@hidden>, James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> > Xft.dpi: 96
>>> Could you tell me what does Xft.dpi means?
>>> Is it a way to tell X applications to assume the specified DPI
> > In short, yes.
> More specifically, it tells libXft to use said DPI. If it exists,
> libXft adds that value (a double) to the patterns it sends on to
> fontconfig.
> If it does not exist, libXft uses DisplayHeight * 25.4 / DisplayHeightMM.
> I believe it uses those two (prefering the Xft.dpi value) only if the
> application hasn't already specified FC_DPI in the fontconfig pattern.
Thank you for the explanation. But, then, it seems that the
DPI setting affects only how to convert point-size to
pixel-size. But, in his screenshot:
http://www.literaturlatenight.de/pic.png
the rendering is apparently affected. Are there any
possibility that what is wrong is not Xft.dpi but some other
Xft setting (e.g. RGB)?
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Kenichi Handa
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