Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!dayton!jad
From: jad@dayton.UUCP (John A. Deters)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript scaling off?
Message-ID: <5179@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 01:24:51 GMT
References: <313@elan.UUCP> <752@mplvax.nosc.MIL>
Reply-To: jad@dayton.UUCP (John A. Deters)
Organization: Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store Co.
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In article <313@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
. . . postscript code deleted . . .
>From this I would expect to get a 5 inch long horizontal line. However, it
>is actually about 1/32 inch too long. Is it too much to expect better than
>1/32 inch (~10 pixels or ~0.5%) accuracy, or is this known to be what happens
>in a LaserWriter Plus and perhaps other printers as well?

Talk to a printer.  You'll find out that one point is not
exactly* 1/72 of one inch (pretty darn close, tho.)  One
point is 1/72.27 of an inch.  (See the red book for all
the truly gory details.) 


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