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[Funkmaster5000]

Thanks for your replies!

The font is called "Fixedsys", which is, indeed, 8x8 pixels in standard size (and also a quite common one in ASCII Art, because it is regular).

I simply don't grasp the connection between font size and it's size in pixels. So font size 12 means 8x8 pixels; font size 24 equals 16x16? I don't think so...

I'm using Blitz3D, because I was quite advanced with QuickBasic, which unfortunatly became obsolete, because it's for DOS.

[florianix]

Originally Posted by Funkmaster5000

Thanks for your replies!
The font is called "Fixedsys", which is, indeed, 8x8 pixels in standard size (and also a quite common one in ASCII Art, because it is regular).

So the distance between lines and chars (in pixels) is still missing...

Originally Posted by Funkmaster5000

Thanks for your replies!
I simply don't grasp the connection between font size and it's size in pixels. So font size 12 means 8x8 pixels; font size 24 equals 16x16? I don't think so...

I think this is depending on the resolution (usually given in pixels per inch) of the display or printer.

That font size refers to "typographic points".

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29
(chapter "Current DTP point system"):

"The desktop publishing point (DTP point) is defined as 1/72 of the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of 1959 (25.4 mm) which makes it 0.0138 inch or 0.3527 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch."

Long live the imperial units.

As a result, that gives the real size of the font on the display - independent of its pixel density.

[Funkmaster5000]

Originally Posted by florianix

So the distance between lines and chars (in pixels) is still missing...

"The desktop publishing point (DTP point) is defined as 1/72 of the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of 1959 (25.4 mm) which makes it 0.0138 inch or 0.3527 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch."

Long live the imperial units.

As a result, that gives the real size of the font on the display - independent of its pixel density.

Holy...

What lines do you mean? I don't quite get it!

[florianix]

Originally Posted by Funkmaster5000

Holy...

What lines do you mean? I don't quite get it!

With "So the distance between lines and chars (in pixels) is still missing..." I wanted to say:
Even if you know that the font is 8x8 pixels per letter - you still need to know the distance (in pixels) between two consecutive letters (horizontally) and the distance between two lines (vertically) in order to calculate the total height of some ASCII art comprising more than one column or row.

If there would be no additional few pixels between two lines, the letters of them would "stick together".

=>

• vertical ASCII art size in pixels = (vertical number of pixels per letter * vertical number of letters) + (distance in pixels between two letters * (vertical number of letters -1) )
• horizontal ASCII art size in pixels = (horizontal number of pixels per letter * horizontal number of letters) + (distance in pixels between two lines * (horizontal number of letters -1) )