[sylpheed:30531] Re: Sylpheed 2.3.0beta6 released

[Gene Goldenfeld]

Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:58:07 -0600
>Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at highstream.net> wrote:

>> Hiro, thanks for working on the Print function.  The printout is
>> definitely more readable now.  I would say, though, that layout has
>> gone from being scrunched together to fairly big print with lots of
>> space between the characters and lines, lots of the page used, as if
>> it's a screen shot of what I see with New Courier 12 in the display
>> settings (arial in the headers, serif font in the body).  From using
>> one-half a tree to using two, so to speak ;-). Where does the Cairo
>> engine get its font and layout settings? I'm wondering if there's a
>> happy medium or more flexibility possible.  Thanks. 
>
>Currently the font size is hard-coded as 12pt, and the line spacing is
>2pt (I was lazy ;)) The font family is taken from the setting of Common
>prefs - Display - General - Text font. Of course these have to be
>configurable.

I'm not sure of your meaning "taken from."  I was assuming that
changing the Display prefs - Text font would change the output, but
found it had no effect, only on screen. I would prefer the two be
independent.  My old eyes like a New Courier 12 display, but don't need
it on paper.  

Gene