RE: pixels per inch

"Bruce Q. Hammond" <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:52:01 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.libart.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John,

Libart doesn't have a concept of "inch"  Only pixels.  It is just putting
pixels into a memory buffer.  If you want to display that buffer at 72 DPI
or 1500 DPI, that is your business :-)

BQ


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> John Hunter
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [LIBART] pixels per inch
>
>
>
> I am trying to make my fonts scale with dpi in am image library that
> uses freetype and libart as it's renderer.
>
> Does libart make some assumptions about how many pixels constitute and
> inch -- eg, 72 points per inch in postscript, 96 pixels per inch in
> gd?
>
> Thanks,
> John Hunter
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