Slightly OT: Changing a monitor's PPI/DPI
Slightly OT: Changing a monitor's PPI/DPI
- Subject: Slightly OT: Changing a monitor's PPI/DPI
- From: "t labarbera" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:32:08 -0500
First...I hope you will forgive this WinXP-based question but I believe you guys are the best people to ask...
I just recently had a new system custom built (moved kicking and screaming from W2K to XP) due to a rapidly failing system (going on 7 years old so I was due a new system) and while I'd given some passing thoughts to getting an intel mac this time round, I didn't have time to implement that passing thought.
I ordered a NEC LCD2090UXi monitor and the transition from a 19" CRT screen with a res of approx. 1152x800-ish (can't boot my old system so I can't check my exact settings and the old monitor was a NEC Multisync FP955) to a 20" LCD with a native res of 1600x1200 is more than a bit disconcerting as in addition to having sooooo much more screen real estate available everything thing is sooo damned small!
>From everything that I've read here and other places, running LCD's at native res is the "thing to do" so while I have played around with the font settings (via the Propreties > Appearance > Advanced), I still felt things were too small. Browsing round the web, I discovered that I could adjust the monitor's ppi/dpi from the "standard" 96 and I have adjusted my setting to 105% (101ppi/dpi--it's a bit tricky to get that slider where you want it exactly) and things are a bit better.
BUT!!! What are the implications--if any--to changing a monitor's ppi/dpi?
I'm still in install/test mode so I haven't gotten back to actually doing the graphic work I do (using Photoshop, Painter) and I've not calibrated my monitor yet but I'm wondering if changing the monitor's ppi/dpi is a "bad" thing? If so, what is one to do aside from some sort of eye transplant?
Thanks much!
Terrie
http://tlbtlb.com/
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