Re: [WinMac] RE: Font Display Differences

CHoogendyk@AOL.COM
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:26:25 EDT

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>So Microsoft fudges the screen and makes
>things a little bigger than they are on paper so they "look right"
>on the screen.

'scuse me?

I think you are making this up.

Things on Windows screens look SMALLER, not larger. The original statement was
96dpi on Windows screens (I didn't check this, but I know they look smaller),
and 72dpi on Mac screens. I would guess that Microsoft probably did this to
cram more onto the screen or something like that. This "look right"
supposition just doesn't sound like Microsoft and furthermore doesn't fit with
the facts of our own observation.

Chris Hoogendyk
(graphic arts specialist &
 former owner of a Linotronic service bureau)

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