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Re: TTF fonts and DPI (was: Printing from browser)



On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 07:00:00AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> It doesn't really matter - the difference is just in what you think of
> the appearance - I often use 75dpi fonts on an approx 100dpi display, to
> get smaller characters that are still readable (reducing the font size
> often gets ugly glyphs for some characters  - these are all the older bit
> mapped fonts where everything has been hand drawn at every size).
> 

Besides, dpi only really applies to bitmap fonts - true-type fonts are
outline fonts that are scaled dynamically.

-- 
Brett Lymn
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