On Friday 04 February 2005 13:30, David Christian Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:55 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote: > > On Friday 04 February 2005 12:26, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > I'm looking at the page size selector in Scribus, and the dimensions > > > for ISO paper sizes (A0, B0, etc. - why no C?) are slightly off. All > > > these sizes are defined as powers of the eighth root of 2 times a meter > > > and then rounded to millimeters. So B0, going by the irrational value, > > > is 1000.000*1414.214, which is rounded to 1000*1414 - but Scribus says > > > it's 1000.478*1413.933. Similarly A0 is 840.896*1189.207, rounded to > > > 841*1189, but Scribus says it's 839.611*1188.155. All the other A and B > > > sizes are computed by dividing sides alternately by 2. The Scribus > > > dimensions are rounded to points, but the sizes are defined in > > > millimeters. > > > > Scribus uses points internally for everything. > > Which is no excuse :) a point is some rational fraction of a millimeter, > I believe. And actually I think it shouldn't, will that change to > millimeters in 1.3?
No, the page sizes should be correct to the spec, for sure. However, a mm and a pt dont relate well. 1 postscript pt = 1/72 in, = 0.352777777 mm 1 TeX pt = 1/72.27in, = 0.3514589035mm and then theres the other, older versions. What dont you think shouldnt be what way? I would hope that you dont mean all our measurements be done in MM? (Even tho I'm a metric kinda guy myself, I do realise pts are where its at in printing) Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050204/c9e31e14/attachment.pgp
