- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:58:48 +0200 (MET)
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
On Jul 18, 4:34pm, David Perrell wrote:
> <http://www.hpaa.com/css1/emsizing.html>
>
> is a demonstration page with all measurements in ems, including
> margins, indent, line-height, and font-size. There is a link to a
> screen dump from my system.
>
> Theoretically, this should be equally legible on any machine, including
> a 72ppi Mac. Comments and screen dumps would be greatly appreciated.
In NSN4.01p6 for SGI, changing the default size in preferences (anywhere
between 8 and 32 pt) had no observable effect. Book Antiqua was not
present, Palatino was (in BDF format at 100dpi and with these sizes
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-57-iso8859-1
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-79-iso8859-1
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-89-iso8859-1
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--19-140-100-100-p-101-iso8859-1
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-133-iso8859-1
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--33-240-100-100-p-176-iso8859-1
^^^---- size in centipoints
^^-------- size in pixels
it was also available in Type1 format
-adobe-palatino-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
but was not selected due to the bitmap version being found first.
Verdana was present (an experiment, converting the TrueType into Type1).
The screen was fairly high-res and supported 24bit color; resolution
was close to the 100dpi the fonts assumed:
screen #0:
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (350x280 millimeters)
resolution: 93x93 dots per inch
depths (5): 1, 8, 12, 15, 24
http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsizing-nsn401p6sgi
There were some odd effects on the last two lines, depending on resizing
the last line of text would disappear.
http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsizing-nsn401p6sgi-oops
Results in NSN4.01 for Mac were similar. Book Antiqua was not present
either, Palatino and Verdana were. Here are two dumps, with and without
smoothtype extension
http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsizing-nsn401mac
http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsizing-nsn401mac-st
Results with IE3.01/Mac were as others have reported ;-)
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Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ]
Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C
chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93
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