Scale and Base-scale and font sizes

[Wookey]

+++ Olly Betts [05-08-18 10:13 +0100]:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:10:01AM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > But if it was photoreduced then the fonts and symbol size shouldn't change.
> 
> If you printed the survey at 1:1000 and photoreduced it to 1:2000, the
> symbols and text would be halved in size by the photoreduction.  Just
> printing at 1:2000 will give symbols and text twice as large as this, so
> changing base-scale from 1:1000 to 1:2000 should double the symbol and
> text sizes.  And it sounds like it does for you...

That makes sense. Quite why I couldn't manage that logic last night I don't
know. Putting that para in the thbook might allow confused people like
myself to get their heads round it (as clearly the current text didn't quite
do it for me).

Wookey
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