Laptop recomendations

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Kwan Lowe wrote:

>>> If things are too small, then just increase your font or icon size - Don't
>>> blame the display ??
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>>> I have LCD as well and love it !
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>> And make sure that your font configurator knows the true DPI of your
>> display.  That way it can scale fonts to their true size.
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> Do you know if this actually works with X?  Way back when the mountains 
> were young, I did some work at a printing company so got very familiar 
> with point sizes. As far as I can tell, the "points" that most settings 
> refer to is actually a pixel size and not the real "points" in the sense 
> of the per-inch measurement.

For the older font system, I think you are right.  But fonts have gotten a 
lot better in recent years (for software that supports the newer system).

In System -> Preferences -> Fonts, select Details, then fiddle with the 
DPI setting.  Your desktop fonts will rescale as you do so--not perfectly 
(fonts do eventually need to be rendered in a box made up of discrete 
pixels, so there are rounding issues), but every so often you'll see them 
change to maintain their closest to correct sizes for a screen with that 
DPI.
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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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