From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:05:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <851wsvursn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8764i7kywu.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> (Ralf Angeli's message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:41:53 +0200")
Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net> writes:
> * Jason Rumney (2006-07-08) writes:
>
>> But using LOGPIXELSX/LOGPIXELSY is not going to be any more
>> accurate than what monitors report, or Windows makes up, since it
>> is based on a dpi setting that is user configurable, defaulting to
>> 96dpi,
>
> If `GetDeviceCaps (hdc, HORSIZE)' always assumes a fixed DPI value
> that would explain why the values are so inaccurate especially on
> displays with a high DPI value. In that case I think it makes sense
> to use the DPI value when calculating the size (as my patch does)
> and assume that the user set it to a value matching her monitor.
The reason this makes sense is that this is how the font size is
determined (the ratio between pixels and point size of a font), and if
one wants to match the dimensions of graphics to a font, one should
use the same algorithm.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-09 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-06 17:50 display-mm-width return value off on Windows Ralf Angeli
2006-07-06 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-06 21:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-07 5:56 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-07 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 12:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 16:54 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-08 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-08 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-08 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-08 21:27 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-08 22:23 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-08 23:03 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-09 7:36 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-09 8:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-09 7:41 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-09 8:05 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-07-09 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-10 10:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 13:29 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-10 14:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 21:28 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-10 22:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-10 23:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 23:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-11 18:43 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-12 13:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-12 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-13 19:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-13 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-14 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-14 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-14 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-14 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-15 22:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-16 17:04 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-14 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-09 9:31 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-08 17:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-07-06 22:09 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-06 22:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 5:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-07 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-05 14:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 15:15 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-19 16:31 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-19 17:54 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 22:34 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-20 8:19 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-21 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 9:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 10:36 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-21 11:45 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-21 11:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-21 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 19:22 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-21 23:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-22 5:57 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 19:16 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 21:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-23 18:31 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-23 22:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-24 16:14 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-24 20:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-25 16:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-25 22:28 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-21 23:25 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-22 5:51 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 7:46 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-22 19:24 ` Ralf Angeli
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2006-07-14 23:55 Robert J. Chassell
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