On Jul 31, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Don Jungk wrote:
> 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.
Hi Folks,
What you may be witnessing is an X11 thing, not a REALbasic thing.
X11 supports (by default) 2 font resolutions - 75dpi and 100dpi. If
you examine your xfs config file, you can determine which of the
resolutions is being selected as the default. The file is recently
placed into /etc/X11/fs/config. If you're running an older (2+
years) Linux distro, you may have to search for the location.
My suspicion is that the default resolution (75dpi) is probably what
is causing your differences.
You should also run 'man xfs' for more details on your specific
version of the X11 font server.
HTH,
Tim
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