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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own)
Summary: Terribly nit-picky today... :-)
Message-ID: <1990Jan15.185433.4699@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 15 Jan 90 18:54:33 GMT
References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <17663@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In-Reply-To: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)

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
| does not matter, but in the case where you are working with printers (people)
| and other typesetters it is important.

OK, but if it *really* matters, it's 72.27 points per inch.  See
Knuth's METAFONT page 33, for example, although I suppose a chart in
Websters probably has the same information.

Just another point-maker,
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