You should change the settings to inches, then draw a 0.375 inch by 0.375
inch square and measure it. Just to see which is more accurate, inch mode or
metric mode.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 2005-07-01 09:13
Subject: [USMA:33414] Re: PowerPoint Centimeters Different from Actual
Centimeters
Now, that's interesting! I tried a "measured" square in the OpenOffice
equivalent of PowerPoint --- Presentation is what they call it.
Unfortunately, an automatic rescaling for printing purposes took place.
I then went to the OpenOffice Draw program (MS Office has not had this
module
in the past but I think they are just now adding it.) Open Office shares
grid
settings for all its modules. I have all my OpenOffice settings in metric
(centimeter, but I could have chosen millimeter).
In Draw I created a 10.00 cm by 10.00 cm square, going by the program's
object
properties information, and then I printed it out. The printed square
measured 9.95 cm horizontally and 10.03 cm vertically. My printer is an HP
LaserJet 1200, driven via CUPS on my linux system.
This is not a CAD system and I suppose that for an office system a 0.3 %
to
0.5 % error is tolerable. In fact, I'm probably getting close to the level
of
uncertainty in my centimeter scale that I used to check it. Sure beats
Microsoft (5.51 %), according to what Pat posted!
Jim
On Friday 01 July 2005 06:03, Pat Naughtin 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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