Re: Design choice for Printout Screen Environment
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- Subject: [mg97036] Re: Design choice for Printout Screen Environment
- From: Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 05:56:22 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 2, 3:20 am, David Reiss <dbre... at gmail.com> wrote: > When Printing the default Screen Environment is "Printout". I have > always been puzzled about the design choice for one setting for this > environment. This is that the Magnification is set to 0.8. Hence, > printing of, for example, a Text cell in 10 point type, is rendered on > the printed page as effective 8 point type. > > I cannot think of any sensible reason for this design choice (and I am > very often having to fix this for people who want to see as Printed > what they set up in their working notebook, which is usually worked > with on the screen in the Working environment. > > It is, of course, easy to change this by editing the stylesheet... > but it seems a very non intuitive design choice.... > > Thoughts? > > --David I would hazard a guess about it having to do with the aspect ratio of a normal 8.5x11 page which is .7727272727272727... and 0.8 is close enough. But this is a pure guess on my part. -Bob