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Re: [wpmac] Mac WP coordinate system (was: Re: A1 paper size?)

On Jul 4, 2009, at 9:43 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:

> it would be interesting to see a discussion of why the apparent
> relative coarseness of MacOS/Quickdraw (72dpi vs 1200 dpi) works so
> well.
> Are Postscript and Truetype fonts part of the answer?

It is because Mac WP uses a 32 bit fixed point number instead of a 16
bit integer number. Effectively giving it a resolution of about
720,000 dpi.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic>

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... You're right, and I was completely wrong. Fascinating! Thanks for that - I'd never guessed that the Mac version used a different system of measurements. ...	Edward Mendelson em315	Jul 4, 2009 1:45 pm
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