Re: Line widths in PDF

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Philippe Drix made me look into why his borders don't show up properly in Acrobat Reader and his printer. He specified border widths as 0.002cm: 0.002cm = 0.0567pt = 0.02mm :o I don't think this is a valid use case. Why would anyone want a border so thin??? Just tell

Re: Line widths in PDF

2006-05-15 Thread Jeremias Maerki
If I understood Philippe correctly, he got that value from an OpenOffice file. He said he'd try to change it. Anyway, despite this being a poor use case, this is still something we should keep in sight. Even I have seen strange effects of border painting inside Acrobat Reader because of effects

Line widths in PDF

2006-05-12 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Philippe Drix made me look into why his borders don't show up properly in Acrobat Reader and his printer. He specified border widths as 0.002cm: 0.002cm = 0.0567pt = 0.02mm At 600dpi one dot/pixel is 1/600in = 0.0016in = 0.12pt = 0.0423mm So the border is less than half a pixel wide at