Hi,
Just thought I'd point out that the error in 10 pt "rounded" to 9.96 pt. is
actually .4%, not 4%. Much smaller...maybe still something to be concerned
about.
Nit-pickingly yours,
Dan Dosick
GE Security
Senior Technical Writer
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:19:06 +0100
From: "Reng, Winfried" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AW: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in
FM generated PDFs
To: <framers@FrameUsers.com>
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Hi,
> >We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines
> thinner than
> >0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts,
> >but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs
> created from
> >FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses "0.199600pt" lines.
> >
> >PDFs of these individual graphics, created from Illustrator, do not
> >have problems with Acrobat prefight, so it seems to be some
> sort of FM
> >conversion problem.
> >
> >Why does this happen, and is there any way to prevent this on the FM
> >side? If there is no way to fix this, we'd have to tell our
> illustrator
> >to make the lines in the graphics slightly thicker.
>
> This looks a lot like a rounding error problem due to two
> different applications using different precision math. In
> floating-point math, computers use a set number of bits to
> represent the complete range of natural numbers. As a result,
> some numbers actually cannot be represented precisely: the
> more bits you use, the closer you get, but there's always a
> compromise.
When I check the font size in my PDF files there´s also often a
difference. E.g. the font size in FrameMaker is 10 pt, and Acrobat
says 9.96 pt. (Other text in Acrobat has exactly the same font size
as in FrameMaker.) 4 % would be a rather large rounding error.
I don´t know whether these differences in line width and font size
have the same cause.
Best regards
Winfried
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