Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!apple!amdahl!esf00 From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: 72.27! (was Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own) Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 19:08:32 GMT References: <137@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <9001220213.aa05139@blackbox.gore.com> <152@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <128@heaven.COM> <846@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> <131@heaven.COM> Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Organization: The Beige Building Full of Bright Engineers, Inc. Lines: 24 Now that the discussion is tailing off .... Friday's mail brought a catalog from Fidelity Graphics Arts, PO Box, 155, Minneapolis, MN 55440, offering the "Graphics Arts Master [Calculator]" which will solve "problems involving picas, points, feet, inches, centimeters, millimeters and fractions. Now you can calculate measurements *exactly* as they are typewritten without converting from inches to picas [...]" The copy does not explain if it uses 72 or 72.27... points/inch. Item CQ54698, $54.95 +s&h. Order yours now and own an authority to refute the denizens of the net :-) Scary, isn't it? The graphics professionals converting from X-acto knives and transfer lettering to integrated imagesetting are going to run up against the "it's *really* 72.27" issue while attempting to copyfit against a deadline. Solutions, anyone? ------ -- Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00 [the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.] [the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.]