Font size representation on macOS is off

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Thu Sep 1 14:52:18 UTC 2022


Le 28/08/2022 à 21:33, Daniel a écrit :
> On 2022-08-27 16:39, Daniel wrote:
>> When using a 10pt font-size at 100% zoom in the work area, this is way 
>> smaller on screen than 10pt in reality. Something seems to be off. 
>> However, I noticed that both Apple's own Pages and Word are having the 
>> same problem. Only Writer manages to get it right. Is there a chance 
>> we could get the Writer result?
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> I think we should calculate the right size ourselves for macOS as Writer 
> does. Otherwise, it is all really confusing. See also
> 
> https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/445862/377509

Either we do that, or we do as other real macOS apps do and add this 
"actual size" thing.

JMarc


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