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Article #1529Re: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own)
From: Neal P. Murphy
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:40
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:40
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merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: >... >OK, but if it *really* matters, it's 72.27 points per inch. See >... Could someone be good enough to explain where the industry obtained such an unusual number? As an aside, one certainly can get a good ruler from a 300 dpi printer. One must simply constrain his design to the resolution of the printer. NPN
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!motcid!murphyn From: murphyn@cell.mot.COM (Neal P. Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own) Message-ID: <806@cherry5.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:40:19 GMT References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <17663@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Jan15.185433.4699@iwarp.intel.com> Reply-To: motcid!murphyn@uunet.uu.net Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Lines: 13