🚀 go-pugleaf

Now that the discussion is tailing off .... Friday's mail brought a
catalog from Fidelity Graphics Arts, PO Box, 155, Minneapolis, MN 55440,
offering the "Graphics Arts Master [Calculator]" which will solve
"problems involving picas, points, feet, inches, centimeters,
millimeters and fractions. Now you can calculate measurements *exactly*
as they are typewritten without converting from inches to picas [...]"

The copy does not explain if it uses 72 or 72.27... points/inch.
Item CQ54698, $54.95 +s&h. Order yours now and own an authority to refute
the denizens of the net :-)

Scary, isn't it?  The graphics professionals converting from X-acto knives
and transfer lettering to integrated imagesetting are going to run up
against the "it's *really* 72.27" issue while attempting to copyfit
against a deadline. Solutions, anyone?

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[the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.]
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