Re: square behavior

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 10 January 2005 02:00 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> So, given what various people know about page layout, what does everyone 
> think about the way of approaching this?  A higher level cropping of the 
> image?  Or a more low-level crop for each terminal?

There's no way you could do it in the core code.

For some terminals, including PostScript, it is not possible to do it
at all, since the physical "pixels" occupied by characters are determined
by the font present in your ultimate output device.  Nobody upstream of
that can predict them perfectly.


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