[PLUG-TALK] Greetings from Mordor

[Ronald Chmara]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> ... It's nowhere near 60-120pt size; probably 16pt.


The typographer in me is screaming bloody murder, pardon my rant.

There are 72 points (post DTP) in an inch, 12 picas. So, 60 point type is
less than an inch tall.

However, since most people only work off of what their computer tells them,
they enter 60 pt type onto a slide, enlarge it 1600% or whatever (depends on
the projector), and think they're still using 60pt type, even though they've
changed to using... 96000 pt type.

Points are a fixed size.

-Boppers
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