Feature changed by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Feature #306195, revision 5 Title: Add DPI option to SaX2 - openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vitaliy Tomin (highwaystar) Description: DPI are very important thing for good font rendering, it always should be equal horizontal and vertical means. Now SaX have option for set display size in millimeters, but it not usefull. By automatic detection SaX make strange DPI means like 95x101 or 84x91 or something else. This values produce ugly font rendering. I suggest to make an option to set fixed DPI for screen, or easier set of physycal screen size in millimetrs to make an wanted DPI like 96, that mean DPI : 96x96 Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-03-16 18:10:44) I am all for it. If Microsoft did one thing right, it was sticking to a fixed DPI (96) by default. Just because your screen happens to be small, the font should not get smaller too. Sony PCG U3 for example has a 6.4" screen that does 1024x768. And typical 17" Desktop LCDs (which is more than twice the size!) still "only" do 1280x1024. This does not mean the font ought to be 2x+ larger for the Desktop LCD, nor should it be 2x+ smaller for the Sony Notebook LCD. The whole automatic DPI setting is misdecision. And let's not forget Virtual Screen Size. The DPI is calculated based on VSS rather than real screen resolution. For single-screen displays, this is braindead. And for multi-screen displays (e.g. dualscreen), this is also highly problematic because the vertical size does not increase, but the DPI does. Now that's some sort of flawed logic. Also see bug #224504. #3: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-03-30 20:52:40) (reply to #1) faking DPI is just as wrong, display size is a variable - as such dot per inches is a variable too. #2: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-03-30 20:51:34) Actually both GNOME and KDE have this setting, so I think duplicating it in sax is wrong. But if you have concrete ways to improve sax usability, it might be worth it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306195