When you select, for example, a Size of 8 in a Font Dialog for Microsoft Sans Serif, it returns a font that .NET displays as having a size 8.25?
Why is this exactly?
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When you select, for example, a Size of 8 in a Font Dialog for Microsoft Sans Serif, it returns a font that .NET displays as having a size 8.25?
Why is this exactly?
A point is 1/72 of an inch, so the font should be 8/72 (0.111111) inches high. Windows assumes a standard display is 96 DPI, unless you take pains to configure it otherwise. That means it tries to create a font that’s 10.66667 pixels high; it rounds to 11 pixels. When you convert that back to points ((11 / 96) * 72), it becomes 8.25.