Re: Windows 95 is wrecking my lines per page

Subject: Re: Windows 95 is wrecking my lines per page
From: Peggy Schillinger <peggys -at- STLNET -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:17:21 -0500

Patgmason wrote:
>
> I've got several very long documents that I like very much that were built
> during the good old days of 6 lines per inch. I would like to print them
> on the crisper printer which is hung off a Win95 system. When I pull them
> in my carefully crafted 54 lines per inch get truncated to 51 (Thanks
> again, Bill Gates).

I don't think you can hang this one on Bill Gates. You need to adjust
your line spacing so that you are using exactly 12 points for each line.
Six lines that are 12 points high will give you a six line per inch
measure because 72 points equal one inch.

Regards...Peggy Schillinger
Peggy Schillinger peggys -at- stlnet -dot- com
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