- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:45:49 -0700
- To: "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>, "Todd Fahrner" <fahrner@pobox.com>
Chris Lilley wrote: > 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 In the Win32 version (95 and NT) changing the default font size, either in preferences or using 'Ctrl-]' and 'Ctrl-[', changes the sizes in the window correspondingly. > but was not selected due to the bitmap version being found first. Odd rendering of Palatino. The hyphens look like en dashes. > Verdana was present (an experiment, converting the TrueType into Type1). But didn't display. > There were some odd effects on the last two lines, depending on resizing > the last line of text would disappear. Yes, depending on context, NSN really screws up inline images in the Win32 version, also. > 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 Judging from the size of the system text, the results appear reasonably close to my W95 screen. Far closer, I expect, than it would be with points. The skinniness of the SGI glyphs demonstrates a problem with most displays. The most common body text sizes fall right at the 'cusp' between 1- and 2-pixel wide vertical strokes. So going from, say, 11 to 12pt type can make a big difference in appearance. Thanks for the comparison. David Perrell
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