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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Two reduced logical pages on a single physical page
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Date: 22 Sep 90 03:55:03 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.113022@mars.inria.fr>, shapiro@mars.inria.fr (Marc Shapiro) writes...
>Well, I happened to have at hand a set of 406dpi fonts (prepared for the
>Agfa 3400PS).  I instructed dvips to use those instead of the normal
>300dpi fonts, and shipped that to the laserwriter, along with the
>`multipr'
>commands.

>Much to my surprise, the result is almost perfect.  I imagine the best
>results will be achieved by using a 424dpi bitmap (because 300/0.707 =
>424.26).
>Anybody care to try? 

Actually, best results will be gotten with 212dpi fonts since
707 * 300 = 212.1. 424dpi will give decent results since we're
dealing with an even multiple of pixels in the scaling.

People dealing with nasty US paper will want to modify things so
that the scaling ratio is 5.5/8.5 rather than .707 (The US ratio
is .647 if you care). This calls for 194dpi fonts.

I like easy questions.

-dh

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