Re: Changing CPI now working in scs2pdf

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:14:42AM -0700, James Rich james@eaerich.com 
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> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Scott Klement wrote:
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> > When I type '?OVRPRTF' on my iseries, it tells me that the possible values
> > for CPI are 5, 10, 12, 13.3, 15, 16.7, 18 and 20.
>
> Okay maybe I should make a map for these sizes.
>
> There may be another solution to this problem.  I think I remember reading
> in the PDF specs about defining your own fonts.  Maybe we could define a
> font that is measured in characters per inch instead of points.  Then a
> lot of this would be more straightforward.  Of course the size of the page
> is still always measured in points.  We could also just say to use a point
> size of (72 points per inch)/(characters per inch).  I've tried that and
> everything comes out way too small.
[snip]

Isn't this because points are measuring the height of the characters,
and CPI is measuring the width of characters?  I think you need to put
the font's aspect ratio (with perhaps some intercharacter spacing) in
that calculation.

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