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- From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
- Subject: Re: Using fonts > 255 points
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- Message-ID: <mattd-161292185101@city-lights.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:52:22 GMT
- References: <9212130834.AA16574@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Developer Support Center, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <9212130834.AA16574@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>,
- 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) wrote:
- >
- > (why did you use 4.5 instead of 5 in your calculations
- > above?)
-
- In yet another piece of trivia encountered over the years, on a standard
- IIgs RGB monitor with factory adjustments the 640-mode pixel dimensions
- are roughly 80 DPI horizontally by 36 DPI vertically.
-
- (80 * 4.5 = 360, and the StyleWriter has 360 DPI resolution)
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