Re: font size and point->pixel conversion

["Adrian E. Feiguin" <afeiguin uci edu>]

Hi Joaquin, if I multiply by 72./96. it actually works, but how do I 
retrieve the dpi for the more general case? (In a portable way)
Thank you!
<ADRIAN>

Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:

> Adrian wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi! I am having a little problem with the font sizes. Before 
> > using pango (gtk-1, or GdkFont for that matter), I could 
> > match exactly the font size to the postscript font size, so 
> > if a font was 12pt on my pixmap, and 12pt on the ps file, 
> > they would look exactly the same.
> >    
>
> Probably due to the different default dpi between X core fonts and
> FontConfig. You should retrieve the dpi (now it's 96 by default) and use it
> to convert from points to pixels.
>
> Cheers,
>