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Re: Point to Pixel converter

From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:10:09 -0700
Message-Id: <v03102825b03a266c2c31@[205.149.180.135]>
To: www-font@w3.org
At 1:54p +0200 09/08/97, Ian Samson wrote:
 > Does anyone know of a converter or chart somewhere that denotes the pixel
 > sizes for various font point sizes?

Why not just measure your screen?
The obvious question, of course, is... of what use would that information be?
Another point to make is that different typefaces of the same point size are
often different sizes, so why bother?

 > WebMaster & Internet Systems Developer (SBN/MSDN/HWG Member)

Oh, SBN member -- that explains a lot. ;)

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