Table Caption, Another HTML Bug?

[David Hampson]

On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 10:40  AM, Paul Kafasis wrote:

>
>  This is not what I'm seeing. When I load the Style Sheet with a set font
> size of say, 12. The text, when copied into Appleworks for example is
> size 12 from Omniweb. Form IE, and iCab, it's size 16.
>
>
> -Paul
>
> --
> Paul Kafasis
> paulk at mac.com

	Well, I think that IE is expanding the font size, so that you get a 
true 12 pts. when displayed on the monitor.  (This may mean telling the OS 
to create a 16 pt font) If you get out your ruler and measure the size of 
the font on the monitor, it will be the correct size in true points.

	Omni doesn't bother with any of that processing, and keeps the 12 
point font.  Unfortunately, whether is a quartz bug or Omni bug in don't 
know, but the true displayed size is less that 12 points.

	If you print from both IE and Omni, you will find the fonts are the 
same size  (I hope, I haven't done this test myself!)  Printers are 
usually very capable of displaying a 12 point font as 12 points in size.

	AppleWorks only concerns itself with the printed page.  A 12 point 
font can be almost any size on the monitor, but will print true.  IE, 
Mozilla, and iCab were meant for the Monitor, and adjust the size of the 
font so that 12 point fonts will display itself as 12 points in size.  I 
do not know what these browsers do for printing, but I'm sure they print 
as the original 12 points.  Since IE expands the font for the monitor, 
when you cut and paste, the size of the font is the size of the displayed 
font, 16 points.

	Tell IE that you monitor resolution is 124, then when you cut and 
paste to AppleWorks, it should be something like (12/72)*124 = 20.6667 
points.  Probably rounded.

-Dave

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart 
as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."
-- Bernard Avishai



p.s.  I just tested this, my 114 dpi monitor.  IE copies the 10 point font 
to AppleWorks as 16 points.  (11/72)*114 = 17.4167.  My 30 point font, (30/
72)*114 = 47.5 goes to AppleWorks as a 48 point font, just like my theory 
predicted.  :-)