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Printing at 72dpi, but no Jaggies!

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Subject: Printing at 72dpi, but no Jaggies!
From: tbuchler <tbuchler at kinnor dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:26:41 -0400
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By default, OpenPrinterDialog is returning a graphics object with a 
resolution of 72dpi, so an average U.S. letter is 612 pixels wide. My 
printer's native resolution is 600 dpi, and the Printer dialog settings 
is showing the printer is currently set to 600 dpi.

When I draw on the page at 72dpi, specifying graphic objects' locations 
based on 72dpi, the objects are being printed where I expect them to be. 
Fonts and lines are being drawn without jaggies, as though they were 
being drawn at 600 dpi.

How is RB achieving this apparent miracle? Certainly not actually 
drawing on a 72dpi graphics object and expanding it to the printer's 
native rez, which would cause jaggies.

-Tom

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