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From: wsinpdb@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Two reduced logical pages on a single physical page
Message-ID: <1433@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
Date: 21 Sep 90 15:07:31 GMT
References: <1990Sep21.113022@mars.inria.fr>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <1990Sep21.113022@mars.inria.fr> Marc Shapiro <shapiro@sor.inria.fr> writes:
?There was a discussion on this newslist recently about how to put two
?logical tex/latex pages, reduced by 0.707, side-by-side on a single
?physical page.
?...
?I imagine the best
?results will be achieved by using a 424dpi bitmap (because 300/0.707 =
?424.26).

Nope, the best results will be achieved by using a 212dpi bitmap
because 300 * 0.707 = 212.something
A 424dpi bitmap works reasonably well because scaling down a factor
of 2 isn't too hard. But metafont will still do a better job in generating
212dpi fonts than postscript will do in scaling a 424dpi font.

Paul.
(debra@research.att.com)