Re: [Matplotlib-users] dashes and dpi?

[Wayne E. H. <wh...@pa...>]

Mark Bakker wrote:
> Yet here you claim that 1pt = 1/72 inch.
> Is that always the case?
Kind of.  This is a typesetting measurement originally having nothing to 
do with computers, displays or graphics files.  However at Wikipedia 
they say its definition has changed over time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29