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From: msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: size of a unit?
Summary: answers
Message-ID: <18113@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 18:13:15 GMT
References: <8807191313.AA21026@brillig.umd.edu>
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In article <8807191313.AA21026@brillig.umd.edu>, marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall) writes:
> 
> 	It does not appear that the size of a unit within the
> default user space is 1/72nd of an inch, as in standard PostScript.
> Is this true? If so, why the deviation? I suspect that it may
> just be a hardware limitation, because the size of a unit appears
> to be about 1/83rd of an inch, on a 3/160, which sounds pretty
> close to the pixels per inch value.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

You got it. On Suns NeWS runs at screen resolution due to the frame buffer
device drivers not providing resolution information.

On Silicon Graphics machines, NeWS runs with 1/72nd inch default units
(except 15 inch screens).  I had to fix several bugs to make this work.

--
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"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."