What does zoom mean in Pages?

I'm trying to figure out what the zoom percentages mean in Pages (the values in the drop-down list at the bottom-left of the Pages window). They certainly dont seem to relate to display size, since 100% displays (say) 10pt text as very tiny (when compared to TextEdit and other apps).
Actually I really cannot make head nor tail of the font sizes in OS X applications. If I use the SAME font at the SAME point size in Pages and TextEdit, and then print the page (or create a PDF) I get vastly different sized character sizes. I'm used to this mess in Windows, but I thought OS X with it's DTP heritage had better control of this?
Confused, anyone shed any light on this?
--Tim

Tim
It was the classic Mac OS (OS9 and before) that had the DTP heritage.
The programmers brought over from NEXT have struggled with design and UI issues.
Having said that I have just done a quick experiment setting Helvetica text in a range of standard sizes and overlaying the 2 resultant .pdfs in Illustrator.
There is *no difference* in font sizing between Pages and TextEdit, which leads me to think there is an issue with your fonts or what you are doing with those fonts.
Peter
btw Since screen resolutions vary so much the 100% size merely assumes a standard 72dpi, when that no longer applies on modern machines. In fact on the new 27" iMac the screen looks incredibly sharp due to its high resolution but everything shrinks quite noticeably to the point where glasses are necessary to read the Finder.

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