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From: mj@chyde.uwasa.fi (Matti Jakobsson TKO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Thin lines on Laser
Message-ID: <847@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 11 Oct 89 15:17:21 GMT
Reply-To: mj@chyde.uwasa.fi (Matti Jakobsson TKO)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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I have tried to produce thin lines on the LaserWriter from a program
in LightSpeed Pascal. When I use the smallest pen (1,1) the figure
is all right on the screen but the lines are too thick on Laser. 

The explanation to this is that the PenSize procedure in QuickDraw 
accepts only integer parameters, (1,1) is the smallest. This
is then converted to PostScript, producing something like

1,1 pen.

In postscript the pen can be much smaller than that. (0.01,0.01) gives
you a nice thin line. 

I have used CMD-f to create the Postcript file and the edited the pen
size using MS-Word and the PostScript style.
The line drawings that I can draw this way are 
ok, but it would be nice to be able to do that from the program.

Any suggestions???

Matti Jakobsson, Univ of Vaasa, Finland, mj@chyde.uwasa.fi