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Article #151572.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own)
From: Randal Schwartz
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 18:54
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 18:54
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In article <17663@rpp386.cactus.org>, woody@rpp386 (Woodrow Baker) writes: | Unfortunaly developers of applications | were not familiar with 72.3 in general, and so did not bother to change the | scaling matrix in thier software like they should. For most cases it really | does not matter, but in the case where you are working with printers (people) | and other typesetters it is important. OK, but if it *really* matters, it's 72.27 points per inch. See Knuth's METAFONT page 33, for example, although I suppose a chart in Websters probably has the same information. Just another point-maker, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!mipos3!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own) Summary: Terribly nit-picky today... :-) Message-ID: <1990Jan15.185433.4699@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 15 Jan 90 18:54:33 GMT References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <17663@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)