Re: Confusion about screen resolution
Re: Confusion about screen resolution
- Subject: Re: Confusion about screen resolution
- From: Rick Aurbach via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:12:01 -0600
Transposition type indeed! Thanks for catching it. (If you check my
calculations, I was clearly using 72 pt/in)
Cheers,
Rick Aurbach
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> On Feb 22, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Marco S Hyman <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> But a typographical point is a unit of distance. There are 27 points per
>> inch. (I.e., a typographical point is 0.0139 inches or 0.353 mm).
>
> Transposition typo? There are 72 points/inch. The given inch and mm values
> are correct if rounded to 3 digits.
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