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Why would it be? 1/72 of an inch has no corresponding value on a monitor. http://stackoverflow.com/a/3557279/2508518 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3557279/2508518
by onli 13y ago
Why would it be? 1/72 of an inch has no corresponding value on a monitor.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3557279/2508518 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3557279/2508518 says it in a good way.
- jimktrains2 13y agoThe OS and application would know the dpi and hence could convert pixels to pts I thought.
- onli 13y agoThat wouldn't help. Without wanting to go too deep into OT-territory: Even if the DPI could be known (and afaik normally it isn't, it is just set to a value) and it would be possible to convert in into real inches (btw, I have no idea how big that is in real units) to be displayed on a monitor, how would a designer know how big any element, even text, should be? It depends on the available space, which depends on the size of the monitor/the size of the window. To think about how absurd that would be, try to find a situation where someone would say "this heading should be 2 cm tall". px as size lead to the same problem with the available space, but they at least correspond to the resolution.