Re: [Fontforge-devel] high resolution fonts

[jon b. <ban...@gm...>]

On 2/15/14, Dave Crossland <da...@la...> wrote:

> Honestly I'm shocked to see this. Free type does better than that :)

Umm, freetype does not apply to large areas of X. Get yourself a
high-resolution monitor and you will find out :) The situation is not
as pretty as you think.


On 2/16/14, ms...@an... <ms...@an...> wrote:
>
> I don't understand this question.  Nothing stops you from making a font as
> many pixels high as you want; and the fact that the average X installation
> has directories for 75dpi and 100dpi fonts but not 200dpi is a matter of X
> configuration and has nothing to do with FontForge.  What exactly is the
> change you would like to see in FontForge?


You are right, it's easy enough to hack around the problem. It just
seemed like it would be more elegant to add another section to the
bitmap-creation tools, where now they automate 75 dpi and 100 dpi
settings, and add one for 200 dpi, since high-resolution displays are
(finally) coming.

But it's not a biggy. I can just make them double-big then lie about
the point size.  If I weren't anal-retentive about these things I
wouldn't even have asked.

This answers my question, thank you.