Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
- Subject: Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
- From: "Zulli, Louis P" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:11:46 -0500 (EST)
Marco,
I checked again and it seems you are correct. With my dpi set to 112, and with "Courier 12" specified in my gnubg.gtkrc file, I visually compared the gnubg menu text to identical text created in TextEdit. The gnubg text was comparable to 20 point Courier, not 12 point.
Sorry for my earlier mistake.
Louis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco De Vitis" <email@hidden>
To: "Louis P Zulli" <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 6:02:35 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
Il giorno 06/gen/09, alle ore 22:18, Zulli, Louis P ha scritto:
> I have the same model MacBook, with OS X 10.5.6 and XQuartz 2.3.2.1.
> I followed the suggestion in the FAQ and entered
>
> defaults write org.x.X11 dpi -int 112
>
> at a Terminal.app prompt. The text in X11 apps like GnuBg, Inkscape
> and Gimp-2.6.4 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/
>
> seem fine to me. They seemed too small before I modified that dpi
> setting.
That's strange. If I use the same command on my MacBook for setting
DPI to 112, here is what I get in Gimp 2.6.4 and Inkscape 0.46:
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8435/gimpfontspr4.png
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/417/inkscapefontsqg9.png
You can see that menu font size is huge, in Gimp the rightmost menus
will hardly fit in a smaller image window, and the height of some
menus almost reaches full screen. And, although the tool settings
panel appears to have fonts of a nice size, its popup menus (like
brush mode selection) have the same huge font size as the menus, which
is ugly.
In Inkscape, instead, hardly any help text will completely fit in the
status bar, given that a huge size is used again in there.
Setting DPI to 75 brings things back to an usable state, even though
the font size in the tool settings panel appears to be a bit small.
Am I the only one experiencing this?
--
Ciao,
Marco.
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