Re: Balsa font sizes screwed up in master

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hello,

On 2016.11.22 10:41, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 11/21/2016 01:51:48 PM Mon, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > [re-sending with size and colour reduced screen shot]
> >
> > Am 21.11.16 19:45 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dreß:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > probably since commit 3ee5eb6ae773c0f3b847ed7355061919ba2d1421 or  
> > 8453c758ec619113441ce0011a387357c4c98b9b, the font sizes in Balsa  
> > are completely screwed up, i.e. the "normal" font settings are now  
> > HUGE.  Instead of the usual size 11, I now have to select 8 to get  
> > roughly the same display as before.  See attached screen shot, with  
> > the font set to 10.5 in xfce's control panel (i.e. Balsa's std  
> > widgets), and 11 for the message display - the font picker preview  
> > should be the same as the message header & body!
> >
> > Note that I don't use the system fonts for Balsa's message display,  
> > as I want monospace.
> >
> > Any idea how to fix it?
>
> Please try the attached patch. The issue is that the font button  
> returns the font size in points, and we have to convert that to  
> pixels to generate CSS, and the current code may be getting the  
> display dpi wrong. I'm struggling with this!
My limited understanding of CSS is that it does understand multiple  
units, so you should not need to specify in pixels.  In fact,  
specifying distances and fonts in pixels will frequently cause  
problems, because there really is an extreme range of DPI out there.  I  
think sticking to points is best, and a backup would be inches (72  
points per inch) or mm.

Jack