Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
- Subject: Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
- From: "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:24:48 +1000
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:16:15 -0700, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>No. Pixels seem to be pixels (the same physical size) on all screens. Points
>- which are already different sizes per font - are seen as larger on Windows
>than on the Mac. On Windows, 10 pts is the standard font size, corresponding
>to about the same size as 12 pts on the Mac. 12 pts looks enormous to them.
>By the same token 10 pts - which they invariably send - looks tiny on the
>Mac.
I'll believe that's what happens, but the whole idea of a "point" is that
it's a more-or-less fixed physical size, and the platforms should fiddle
the number of pixels involved to make it so (within the vagaries of
physical resolution variations).
>(Surely you've received those tiny blue Arial 10 pt messages from
>Outlook?) In Entourage 10.1.4 and later those get translated to the
>equivalent pixels which turns out to be 12 or so in Entourage.
No, I use PowerMail.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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