[thelist] hard won vector art tip...

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Sun Nov 12 16:00:00 CST 2000


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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John

This is only true for Windows
<tip type='Windows screen res incompatibility'>
MS can't read standards. They 'misread' standard screen res as 96dpi,
not 72dpi, and accordingly ensured that Windows fonts are always too
big (relative to standard). This is why many (designed on Windows) sites
are unreadable on (standards-compliant) Macs.

If only the [em] measurement worked in css...
</tip>

Cheers
Martin



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When exporting from Illustrator 9 to .swf, the default ppi is 72. This seems
good, considering all of the years of '72 dpi for the web' we've all
endured. Problem is, that's not always true screen res. Mine is 96dpi. This
makes things not line up quite right after the export. Specifically, I had
all of this type within a path. It looked great in Illustrator, but when
exported to Flash, the type overran its boundaries and ran all over itself.
Solution: export at true screen res, 96dpi.



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