Bug 58905 - font size changes with changed dpi entry in XF86Config
Summary: font size changes with changed dpi entry in XF86Config
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: calligraflow
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.90
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Simonsson
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Reported: 2003-05-24 22:08 UTC by Michael Christen
Modified: 2003-06-09 10:53 UTC (History)
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2003-05-28 21:17 UTC, Michael Christen 		Details
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Description Michael Christen 2003-05-24 22:08:43 UTC 
Version:           1.2.90 (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB-athlon

Compared to other applications (i.e. kword) the font size is too big even though the values of "DisplaySize" in section "Monitor" in the file XF86Config is correct. When changing those values the font size changes massively compared to other KDE applications.

Whilst the actual display size is 370 x 270, we had to use the values 421 x 311 in XF86Config to reach acceptable results, meaning that the displayed font size in kivio looks as big as in other applications.

Using SuSE 8.1 (Xfree86 4.2, KDE 3.1) this problem did not appear. 

Hoping this information is sufficient for reproducing (and hopefully solving) this problem. :-) Thank you.
Comment 1 Peter Simonsson 2003-05-28 18:30:43 UTC 
Could you send a screenshot, as I can't reproduce the problem here...
Comment 2 Michael Christen 2003-05-28 21:17:30 UTC 
Created attachment 1663 [details]
screenshot of kword and kivio showing the difference

here is a screenshot showing the difference of the font size between kword and
kivio. i doubt it helps you a lot for finding the problem...
Comment 3 Michael Christen 2003-05-28 21:24:42 UTC 
Did you change the DisplaySize in Section 'Monitor' of the file
/etc/X11/XF86config to reproduce the behaviour?
I think it's possible that the problem did not occur with XFree86 4.2, but i'm
not sure. Unfourtunately all computers around me are already installed with
XFree86 4.3 thus i can't try with XFree86 4.2.
Comment 4 Peter Simonsson 2003-05-29 01:15:08 UTC 
Ok, found the problem. Will fix.
Comment 5 Peter Simonsson 2003-05-31 16:52:00 UTC 
Ok, fixed in cvs (if you use cvs please update and test)
Comment 6 Michael Christen 2003-06-08 16:41:14 UTC 
Thanks for solving this problem, it looks fine now, but a new problem appeared
in cvs-HEAD version. The font is no longer zoomed if you change the
zooming-factor... This problem does not exist in the beta1 version.
Comment 7 Peter Simonsson 2003-06-08 19:55:16 UTC 
Subject: Re:  font size changes with changed dpi entry in XF86Config

On Sunday 08 June 2003 16.41, Michael Christen wrote:
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> ------- Additional Comments From starcube@my-mail.ch  2003-06-08 16:41
> ------- Thanks for solving this problem, it looks fine now, but a new
> problem appeared in cvs-HEAD version. The font is no longer zoomed if you
> change the zooming-factor... This problem does not exist in the beta1
> version.
Ok, the zooming should work in cvs again...
Comment 8 Michael Christen 2003-06-09 10:53:16 UTC 
yeah, it works fine now. thanks a lot.