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Re: Point[] shapes at different sizes

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• Subject: [mg84903] Re: Point[] shapes at different sizes
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:52:58 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
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• Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

that depend on the resolution of your printer.
The printer will have laser diodes with square shape
to represent a pixel. If your pixel is smaller than the
size of the laser diode it can't be circular or you take
some tools and modify the shape in the printer.

Regards
   Jens

Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote:
> The shape of Point objects is usually circular, but below a certain siz=
e
> they are displayed as squares.  This is useful for screen display, but
> not always desirable when exporting to vector formats.  Is there a way
> to set the shape of Points of all sizes to be circular?
>
> Here is an example that produces square points:
>
> gr = Graphics@Table[{PointSize[x/1000], Point[{x, 0}]}, {x, 1, 10}]
> Export["gr.eps", gr]
>
> Szabolcs
>

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