It might be the font we've chosen.. I think one of the fonts looks
like a 'condensed' version of the font (in width), vs the other
where the letters look 'fat' and 'wide'.

This might just be a wacky font on the platform I was working on
at the time, which I think was a fedora 3 system that I think I still have.

Matthias Melcher wrote:
> 
> Looking at STR 2456, there seems to be a general font scale issue. I know that we never insisted on a perfect font size, assuming that the font "height" is supposed to be set. But having learned much more about fonts than I ever wanted, I now know that there are many different meanings to the "height" of a font.
> 
> So what's a poor developer to do? 
> 
> - first, we need to define what exactly we mean by font "height", right? 
> - then we need to find the function on all platforms that returns the same values for the same (TT) font
> - finally, we have to find out how to *request* the desired font height
> 
> That all should give use a better result, but it still does not guarantee that the *width* and layout will be the same on every platform... .
> 
> Sigh.


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