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Re: Linux Text Size

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Subject: Re: Linux Text Size
From: Don Jungk <rb at flippingdades dot com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:52:07 -0500
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>
> Hopefully that adds to the confusion.
>
> Me, I'd stick with the line-spacing argument. How that actually
> translates glyph-wise depends on the individual glyph in the
> individual font.
>
Hi Andy,
This is fine. How we think about it is personal preference. Using line spacing 
will work if you always want the same amount of space between the lines. The 
actual issue here is that RB for Linux is drawing type differently from RB 
for Mac and Windows and differently from all the other programs I've seen. 
One just has to print a capital H at 72 points from various programs and 
measure it to see this.

Since I'm using g.DrawString to display the page on the screen, but writing 
Postscript "by hand" for printing, this difference is making it difficult.

Thanks for the extra references.

Don
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