fontsize in 7.92
Scott Berry
sberry at northlc.com
Tue Oct 23 02:15:55 UTC 2007
Also my father is noticing some font changes in Open Office. He tells me
the font is very small. Not sure whether to report this as a bug or whether
it can be changed with in Open Office itself? If it is able to be changed
in Open Office how would one do it?
Scott
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From: "Owen Taylor" <otaylor at redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: font size in 7.92
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:24 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le mardi 23 octobre 2007 à 00:01 -0400, Christoph Hoeger a écrit :
>>
>> > is that sense-full? I mean, I've bought a Thinkpad R60 with a 1440x900
>> > Display to see more information on my screen simultaneously
>>
>> If you want small fonts just lower the size in points of your fonts in
>> your app preferences. Gnome font preferences use pt as unit. Till now
>> the GNOME pt unit had no relation with the pt unit the rest of the world
>> uses. Now it's the same, so if you want small fonts you need to actually
>> configure small fonts and not change the unit meaning on your system
>> (and likewise if you want big fonts).
>>
>> That also means BTW that when you change laptop again your text will
>> stay the same size regardless of the screen resolution, so you can
>> invest the time to find good settings you'll keep them a long time.
>
> I'd be interested in a pointer to the discussion that led to this policy
> change.
>
> - Owen
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