Tim:
> Are the lines the same widths? Point sizing generally refers to
> characters per inch across the page.
Richard England:
I don't believe that is true unless it has changed since my days
in
actual printing. The character size in points refers to the size from
the highest to the lowest extent of the letters of a given type face
size.
While the "size" of a font is, indeed, the entire size of the font,
points used in typing, generally, were just used as a measure of how
many would fit across a given width (10pt being the common one, 12pt
being the more compact, usually).
You also have to consider the display medium. DPI and aspect ratio of
the display device can wreak havoc on any document transfered across
systems.
Another consideration that word processor document files are just
storage of something on a particular PC (for later printing, etc.).
They really are not a portable document format. A different PC might
have different fonts, and will probably have a different printer (with
different minimum margins).
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