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From: mthome@bbn.com (Michael Thome)
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Subject: Re: WYSIWYG & DPI
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Date: 20 Oct 88 19:08:51 GMT
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With respect to DPI levels of NeXT hardware:  Given the actual DPI values
of the display (*ROUGHLY* 100dpi) and the lzpr (400dpi or 300dpi) you
should keep in mind that assuming the display postscript interpreter is
any good at all (i.e. does some sort of anti-aliasing) and the display
has a 2-bit grayscale, even the relatively low resolution level provided
by the screen ought to look FAR better than it's dpi figure would
suggest... maybe someone out there knows how to compute an "effective"
dpi rating for a 2 bit screen?  Is it, in fact, ~200 "e"dpi?