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William Chia-Wei Cheng
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Tgif FAQ - Font Sizes

Tgif.FontSizes
If you want to use large fonts, you can add the following line to your X resource file (such as ~/.Xdefaults):

Tgif.FontSizes: 8 10 11 12 13 14 17 20 24 25 34 38 40 44 48 64
Why is it that when I use 14pt font in tgif, it comes out much smaller in PostScript?
Tgif uses 128 pixels/inch and PostScript uses 72 points/inch. The difference you see is 128/72 which is about 178%. I chose 128 long long time ago so I can do shifts instead of multiplications/divisions to speed up computation. It was probably the right thing to when we only have SUN3's and slow 486's. Now, it's too late to change.

One quick way to get around the problem is to just set the reduction/magnification to 178% (which is approximately 128/72). This can be done by selecting SetReduction() under the Layout Menu or setting the following X default:

Tgif.PercentPrintReduction: 178

This effectively blows everything up in PS by 178%.

In tgif-4.x, you can set the following X default to use point size in the Size Menu:

Tgif.ShowFontSizeInPoints: true