Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 15:52:15 GMT References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <17663@rpp386.cactus.org> <1728@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 12 In-reply-to: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 16 Jan 90 00:53:16 GMT In article <1728@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes: One shouldn't forget, in this context (1) the inter- and intra-printer reproducability of the bit density (2) paper shrinkage. Such differences are liable to wipe out the difference between 72 ppi and 72.27 ppi. Also paper slippage. I've run both paper and transparencies through it and they don't like up when I hold them up to each other. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems