Why is it then that kid's text books use much larger fonts than adult's?

- Bert -

Am 20.09.2006 um 16:58 schrieb Daniel Vainsencher:

> The audience is kids, their eyes are still new, and built smaller  
> to boot :-)
>
> Test it on a kid, but I doubt you'll have a problem.
>
> Daniel
>
> Yanni Chiu wrote:
>> Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>>> On 2006 September 19 17:52, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> What would be really interesting is if someone could come up  
>>>> with a way
>>>> to author projects at their native OLPC resolution (1200x900) while
>>>> viewing them at half that size, that is, scaled by 0.5 in a 600x450
>>>> window. This is because the actual resolution of the display is  
>>>> 200 dpi,
>>>> whereas a normal monitor has 100 dpi.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. I never really tried a resolution outside of the  
>>> "standard" (1280x960 etc), but if setting X to non-standard  
>>> resolution to 1200x900 / 600x450 works .. if I build a project on  
>>> the higher resolution and then restart X on  lower, and run the  
>>> project - is that what you have in mind?
>>
>> Working in 1200x900 resolution isn't really the problem.
>> IIUC, the problem is having a true picture of the result.
>>
>> Suppose you manage to set your resolution at 1200x900,
>> and merrily author a project on your 19" monitor (for example).
>> You'll choose font sizes, box sizes, alignment, etc, based
>> on what you see. But when this project is actually run on
>> a real OLPC, it'll only be a quarter the size (because the
>> screen resolution is 200dpi, not the more typical 100dpi).
>> The result may be that some things may be illegible.
>>
>>
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