twip
hmm. A Microsoft invention eh? I didn't know Bill Gates spoke with a lisp.
Anyway what we need now is to get rid of dpi in favour of dpc, or maybe dpm,
for printing.
50 dpm, 100 dpm, etc would be a useful way to go.
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hudnall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:00 PM
Subject: [USMA:33415] Re: PowerPoint Centimeters Different from Actual
Centimeters
Microsoft has indeed changed their stance since then.
The prior standard was based on the TWIP (twentienth
of a pica point - which did not present nice round
numbers for either in or cm measurement). Microsoft
dropped support for the TWIP a couple of years back
with the release of .NET. Previously you had to create
something in TWIPS, then convert it to PIXELS, then
convert it to the target output size.
Now all measurements are in PIXELS - which are
unit-less. This makes it easier to create graphics
independent of what the target output size will be,
then scale to their target output (be it A4 or
billboard size). There is an article about this posted
at
http://visualbasic.about.com/cs/visualbasicfaq/a/dykpixeltwip.htm
--- Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Dear All,
I know that this is a bit old but it shows a strange
mindset that it is
quite comfortable redefining world standards < on
the fly.
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=189826
for Microsoft's attitude to the metric system back
in 1997.
Has Microsoft changed their attitude to standards
since then?
By the way this reminds me of an even older riddle.
Question: How many software engineers does it take
to change a light bulb?
Answer: None, they simply redefine darkness as the
new standard.
Cheers,
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