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  2. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word, for instance, suggests every even size between 8 and 28 points and, additionally, 9, 11, 36, 48 and 72 points (the font sizes 36, 48 and 72 equal 3, 4 and 6 picas respectively). While most software nowadays defaults to DTP points, many allow specifying font size in other units of measure (e.g., inches, millimeters, pixels ...

  3. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) defined by the World Wide Web Consortium use pc as the abbreviation for pica (1 ⁄ 6 of an inch), and pt for point (1 ⁄ 72 of an inch). [3] The pica is also used in measuring the font capacity and is applied in the process of copyfitting. [4] The font length is measured there by the number of characters per pica ...

  4. Dots per inch - Wikipedia

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    Actual size is approximately 1 ⁄ 4 by 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6 by 6 mm). Individual coloured droplets of ink are visible; this sample is about 150 DPI. Dots per inch (DPI, or dpi [1]) is a measure of spatial printing, video or image scanner dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch ...

  5. Typographic unit - Wikipedia

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    The traditional typographic units are based either on non-metric units, or on odd multiples (such as 35 ⁄ 83) of a metric unit.There are no specifically metric units for this particular purpose, although there is a DIN standard sometimes used in German publishing, which measures type sizes in multiples of 0.25 mm, and proponents of the metrication of typography generally recommend the use of ...

  6. Microsoft Word - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [15] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [16] [17] [18] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989 ...

  7. Twip - Wikipedia

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    They are also used in Rich Text Format from Microsoft for platform-independent exchange and they are the base length unit in OpenOffice.org and its fork LibreOffice. Flash internally specifies most sizes in units it calls twips, but which are really 1 ⁄ 20 of a logical pixel, [ 6 ] which is 3 ⁄ 4 of an actual twip.

  8. How to Correct a Mistake on a Check: Step-by-Step - AOL

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    Can You Use White Out on a Check? No, it’s not a good idea to use white out on a check. If you made a mistake, neatly cross out the mistake with one line and write the correction above the mistake.

  9. Pitch (typewriter) - Wikipedia

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    Pitch is the number of letters, numbers and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi), measured horizontally. [1] [2] The pitch was most often used as a measurement of the size of typewriter fonts as well as those of impact printers used with computers.