Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!inria!mirsa!daniel From: daniel@mirsa.inria.fr (Daniel Dardailler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: DIX-AID Message-ID: <470@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 26 Dec 89 15:44:50 GMT Reply-To: daniel@mirsa.inria.fr (Daniel Dardailler) Organization: Bull Research Center. Sophia Antipolis. France Lines: 39 Hello folX, If you have a minute, you can participate in this petition for a better X server attitude regarding device independence: 1) Enter: xdpyinfo | grep millimeters which will give you the X server values for your screen dimensions. 2) Take a REAL ruler and take the REAL measures of your screen (pixels on) which will certainly give you other numbers. 3) Send the whole line to xpert and to your server vendor. We need to act now so that our children can select X fonts in a device independent way (point size rather than pixel size) and be able to describe application dimensions in millimeters rather than in pixels. Here are a few measurements from my own lab... ----------------------------------------------------------- Workstation | Release | Xserver | Real | Error | type | number | size in mm | size in mm | in % | -----------------------------------------------------------| SUN3/SUN4 | R3/R4 | 254x325 | 270x340 | 6.2x4.5 | SUN HighRes | R3 | 451x361 | 270x340 | 67 x6 | IBM RT | R3 | 325x325 | 285x285 | 14 | HP9000 | R1 | 238x298 | 275x345 | 13.5 | DPX 1000 | R3 | 293x391 | 270x360 | 8.5x8.6 | VAXSTATION | DEC? | 292x346 | 285x325 | 2.5x6.5 | ----------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Dardailler | Email : daniel@mirsa.inria.fr BULL Centre de Sophia Antipolis | Phone : (33) 93 65 77 71 2004, Route des Lucioles | Telex : 97 00 50 F 06565 Valbonne CEDEX France | Fax : (33) 93 65 77 66 |