Re: Screen Size

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I was writing a little program last week for my brother
who paints signs. I wanted to let him see a big letter
onscreen that would be the same size as what he'd
get printed on paper.

fwiw, that's what twips are for. At least they used to be, and that's why
VB
adopted them as a measurment (afaik).. VB was originally basically a form
generator and people (I knew) would just print forms that were filled
out...
since they wanted the form to be a predictable size on paper, they had a
standard 1440 twips per printed inch... so, in theory, if you have a form
that's 14400 twips wide, you had a 10" wide form on a printer. It's been a
long time since I've tested this... but, on the few printers I did test
(way
back when), it was correct... as correct as it ever needed to be anyway.

Thanks. I was hoping that was the case -
that twips, points and inches would translate
in the printer to real sizes. But I wasn't sure
whether I could trust that.



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