[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Mark J. Blair]

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.


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