[Biodevelopers] Fonts

[Alex Milowski]

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 04:57 AM, Martin Kucej wrote:

>> From what I learned, the best is to set your font
> in pixels (px) not in points (pt). The latter is
> interpreted very differently. See this page below:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/internet/fonts/fonts_gallery.html

Points are resolution independent.  Pixels depend on your screen 
resolution.

A point is roughly:

    1 pica point = 0.35146 mm

You really should never use pixels as you never know the display 
resolution.

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