[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 14:45:24 Mark J. Blair did opine:

> On Jan 11, 2014, at 11:00 , Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > This is true to a certain extent, you'll recall that the original
> > postscript resolution is 72 dpi, and while we have much higher
> > resolution printers today, postscript and pdf's are still limited to
> > a placement resolution of 72 dpi.  And this is what, 30 years after
> > adobe first used postscript?  40 years maybe.
> 
> That is not correct. The coordinate system uses units of points (72
> points per inch), but the coordinates are real numbers, not integers.
> Postscript allows vector graphics to be described at arbitrary
> resolution, and then they are rendered in the native resolution of the
> output device.

Frosting on the cake then. But how do they represent the real?

Cheers, Gene
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