WillAdams@aol.com wrote:

re-examination). At some magnifications things are about identical, at others one gets a double-pixel medium grey line, and the other gets a single-pixel dark grey line. Hopefully at some point in time we'll just

ah, thanks for confirming that, because i noticed something like that here too of course we can complain a lot about the rendering, but on low res screens it's a tricky issue and on average the pdf files look ok; around acrobat 3, ghostscript did the best rendering (esp graphics due to anti aliasing), but nowadays acrobat does a better job; one thing i noticed is that on a high res screen rounding can be multiple pixels off (the cover page of the 'extreme' manual on our web site is a good demonstration); when i submitted a screen dump (1600x1200) to the beta group of adobe a few versions back, they told met that that it didn;t happen at their site; maybe the developers only use low res screens -) (btw, having too big rules is not that unfamiliar to me since we started using tex on 150 dpi printers and at that time everything tex looked bold; when we gto high res printers at frst i thought that there was something wrong with the now thinner results) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------