Re: font size
Re: font size
- Subject: Re: font size
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:09:10 -0700
On Sep 14, 2012, at 1:01 AM, Jean-Denis MUYS < email@hidden> wrote: - on her MacBook Pro Retina, the UI is different, but the result is the same: 5 choices, no resolution independence at all. The UI even labels one end of the 5-step spectrum "larger text". This clearly shows that Mountain Lion is not resolution independent because same point-size text doesn't stay the same [approximate] size on the screen.
I don’t think we mean the same thing by “resolution-independent”. I don’t know what you mean by the word. What I mean, and what I think the default meaning is, is that the scale of the coordinate system used by the system and apps for drawing is not related to (is independent of) the size of the pixel grid drawn by the display. And that’s exactly what the Retina MBP supports via that system pref. The resolution of the LCD screen is of course fixed, but the resolution (the scale of the coordinate system) used by the OS for drawing changes.
It wouldn’t make any sense for text to stay the same physical size on the screen while other content changed physical size. That would mean there were two different user coordinate systems being used, one for text and one for everything else. Whether or not that would even be useful, there’s no way apps could display a reasonable UI that way without heavy modification. I’m not even sure whether it’s possible to define this coherently — would the content of a Pages document change size too, but not the graphics it was wrapped around?) Ultimately I think what you’re talking about isn’t really anything to do with graphics, it’s just an adjustment of the default system font size.
—Jens |
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