On 2006 September 20 22:32, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Why is it then that kid's text books use much larger fonts than adult's?

Maybe old people need large letters because they have different/bad eyes, and 
kids need large letters because they have different processing in the brain - 
100% speculation :)

Milan
>
> - 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.