mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) (12/27/89)
I'm trying to help a design group get accurate proofs of magazine pages (
designed in Letraset DesignStudio) out of a LaserWriter IINTX. The
problem is that all the output comes out a point or two too small.
This is a consistent distortion, and it occurs in all the applications
I've checked. Rumor has it that the problem is between QuickDraw and
Postscript -- QD has 72 points per inch, PS has 72.3 or some such --
but I can't verify that and I haven't the faintest idea how to deal
with it short of setting the scaling factor in the "Print..." dialog
to 99% or so. That's a bit of a kludge, it seems.
Has anyone else encountered this particular problem with getting
(reasonably) dimensionally accurate output from a Postscript
printer? Any solutions?
Please respond by e-mail -- at long distance rates, my employer can
ill afford to have me keep up with this mile-a-minute newsgroup.
thanks muchly,
Michael Rose
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Man of many hats -- DTP Consultant, Time Inc. Magazines
Managing Editor, The Tartan
Sometime English major, CMU
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