[LAD] Setting fonts in pixels rather than points

[Robert Jonsson]

Hi, I don't know about GTK but in Qt it is possible to load a bundled font.
I would think that with some wizardry that would be possible with GTK too.

Not sure about licenses may be a problem to find a font that allows it.
/Robert

2009/12/26 Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen at comhem.se>:
> I am trying to fix the size of my UI to be independent of the selected
> WM theme. I have a gtkrc (based on the "Ia Oya" engine) which will do
> that - except for the font sizes which will vary dependent on how screen
> resolution is set globally.
>
> One work-around I have found is to use a font that has only one size. Of
> that kind I have found three: "Terminal" (medium sized, looks a bit like
> a flattened "9x15"), "Teletext" (like "Terminal" but wider),
> "Outcast" (small, "Tek"-like slanted) and "Caption" which is again like
> "Terminal but twice the size and more polished.
>
> Are these fonts standard in any distribution? Or a result of the
> dependencies of whatever packages I might whimsically have happened to
> have currently installed?
>
> [Dots per inch makes little sense when the target could be a cinema
> sized 800x600 projector as well as a handheld with similar resolution]
>
>
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