Anyone ever used PrintJobPlugin?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Aug 9 15:21:41 UTC 2003


> So the largest magnitude would be 23 meters. This sounds large
> enough for paper size and maximizes accuracy given 32 bits.
> And who would we be to argue with DK? Except maybe for the
> general superiority of the metric system. There are good
> arguments for it even in the land of typography:
> 	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/metric-typo/

Yes, those arguments are actually pretty convincing. Typography used to be
an archaic art form before the age of computing but given that these day
every last person using a word processor has to deal with these issues, it
makes sense to match this more to the measures more generally used.

> Anyway, I still stand by my 1 micrometer = 1 unit proposal, 
> because we aren't really going to need more precision - we
> are just handing these numbers to the OS's print driver, we
> don't want to do heavy math on them.

I agree. Let's make it micrometers then.

Cheers,
  - Andreas



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