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From: pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own)
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Date: 16 Jan 90 05:02:18 GMT
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In article <1990Jan15.185433.4699@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
   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

   OK, but if it *really* matters, it's 72.27 points per inch.  See


How tough could it be to have the basic unit be a decipoint (723
decipoints per inch or 7227 centpoints per inch) 
You'd still have integer values, and multiplication and divides would
not be too expensive..   sounds like cutting corners to me..

-Paul Nakada
pnakada@oracle.com