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Fish,
I know G1GOP (Alan is, I think, his name( pretty well. I suspect he is running a Linux distro...
Dave
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> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: 30 April 2019 19:23
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [hercules-390] Re: Herc Studio problems
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> Jacob Dekel wrote:
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> > Indeed there is a limitation of maximum 20pt of text there (that once
> > looked reasonable, I guess...). I will soon commit a fix that will
> > increase that maximum.
>
> It's your product, Jacob, so you can of course make whatever changes you
> want to it, but limiting the font size to a maximum of 20 points seems
> perfectly reasonable to me (although imposing *any* type of limit on the
> size of fonts seems a little silly).
>
> Besides, I doubt the problem is in Hercules Studio. Rather, I suspect it's in
> the operating system itself (or how the user has it configured, one or the
> other).
>
> A font's "point size" is a fixed unit of measure; see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography). Thus, if a user sets the
> size of the font to 20 points, it should *always* be drawn 20/72" (7mm) tall,
> no matter what the given device's resolution is.
>
> That is to say, if the screen resolution is, say, 72 pixels per inch, then the font
> should be drawn 20 pixels tall. If the resolution is 720 pixels per inch, then it
> should be drawn 200 pixels tall, etc. An operating system's GDI subsystem
> (Graphics Device Interface) *should* handle that for you automatically.
>
> --
> "Fish" (David B. Trout)
> Software Development Laboratories
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