On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Il 23/03/13 02:15, Sean Collins ha scritto: >> is a 2560 x 1440 27 inch high enough dpi ? > > Absolutely not! 2560*1440 at 27" give only 109 DPI ;-) Hrm, I was using 2048x1536 on a 21" Cornerstone CRT (19" viewable) back in 1995-96... They made monitors (and video cards) at even higher resolutions for industrial CAD work at that time and I've always wondered why it's taken so long for higher pixel density to catch on. LCD really screwed it all up. An "arbitrary" scaling factor makes the most sense going forward. - Urias