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I'm trying to help a design group get accurate proofs of magazine pages (
designed in Letraset DesignStudio) out of a LaserWriter IINTX.  The
problem is that all the output comes out a point or two too small.

This is a consistent distortion, and it occurs in all the applications
I've checked.  Rumor has it that the problem is between QuickDraw and
Postscript -- QD has 72 points per inch, PS has 72.3 or some such --
but I can't verify that and I haven't the faintest idea how to deal 
with it short of setting the scaling factor in the "Print..." dialog
to 99% or so.  That's a bit of a kludge, it seems.

Has anyone else encountered this particular problem with getting
(reasonably) dimensionally accurate output from a Postscript
printer?  Any solutions?

Please respond by e-mail -- at long distance rates, my employer can
ill afford to have me keep up with this mile-a-minute newsgroup.

thanks muchly,

Michael Rose
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Man of many hats -- DTP Consultant, Time Inc. Magazines
                    Managing Editor, The Tartan
                    Sometime English major, CMU
                    mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu
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