On Saturday 14 March 2009 12:38:19 Jeremiah MacGregor wrote: > These all seem to be instances where a name is used but nothing is actually > measured. How do you measure your dpi? How often do people use dpi when > printing. I never do. I may choose font size, but these are just numbers > that really have no unit attached.
The way to metricate dot size in printers is to set it to a multiple or submultiple of 25 µm, which is used in plotters. PostScript doesn't care; you can set the font size to 2.718281828 points and scale the image by 1.618034/0.70710678. Pierre
