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Article #1519Re: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own)
From: Paul Nakada
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 05:02
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 05:02
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In article <1990Jan15.185433.4699@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: 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 OK, but if it *really* matters, it's 72.27 points per inch. See How tough could it be to have the basic unit be a decipoint (723 decipoints per inch or 7227 centpoints per inch) You'd still have integer values, and multiplication and divides would not be too expensive.. sounds like cutting corners to me.. -Paul Nakada pnakada@oracle.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oracle!news From: pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own) Message-ID: <PNAKADA.90Jan15205828@pnakada.oracle.com> Date: 16 Jan 90 05:02:18 GMT References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <17663@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Jan15.185433.4699@iwarp.intel.com> Sender: news@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corperation, Belmont, CA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com's message of 15 Jan 90 18:54:33 GMT