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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG
Summary: you're forgetting the PostScript part
Keywords: WYSI*A*WYG
Message-ID: <10737@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 18:42:17 GMT
References: <6937@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <12908@oberon.USC.EDU> <2467@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <2467@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, chiaravi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Lucius Chiaraviglio) writes:
< In article <12908@oberon.USC.EDU> venkat@brand.usc.edu (V. Venkat) writes:
< >With a 17" diameter screen i.e. apprx 12" X 12" screen and a 1024X1024 pixels
< >-- the screen resolution will be about 86 pixels per inch.
< > [...]
> 
> 	I can't claim to know much about the NeXT machine in particular, but
> what is going on here, as what goes on with printing from a Macintosh
> (especially to a laser printer but also to ImageWriters) is not quite WYSIWYG

The important part of this issue is PostScript!
The PostScript language has no concept of pixels/resolution/etc.;
therefore, programs output what they think is WISIWYG, and it's
up to the PostScript display software to map it to the best resolution
of the devece.  What You See IS What You Get - PostScript code.
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	Christopher J. Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	ulysses!cjc