Re: What is `image-compute-scaling-factor' for?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Evgeny Zajcev <lg.zevlg@gmail.com> writes:

> I really can't get how this default behaviour could be ok, see screenshots:
> http://lgarc.narod.ru/pics/screenshot-scale.png

Looks OK to me -- you have huge characters, so you get huge images,
which is a good default, since people presumably have huge characters
because they need to.

If you don't like the heuristics, you know what to do.  If you've chosen
to have huge characters for whimsical reasons, you have a very unusual
setup: People normally choose a font size based on what's comfortable
for them to read.

> So, what the value you have now as return for (image-compute-scaling-factor
> 'auto) ?

2.3, which looks nice.

> With code I've provided you hit into typical DPI (your DPI=96 < 100) and get
> scaling factor 1.

Yes, that would look awful.

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