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資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
twip
(TWentIeth of a Point) 1/20 of a {Postscript
point}, or 1/1440th of an inch. There are thus 1440 twips to
an inch or about 567 twips to a centimeter.
Twips are used in {Microsoft} formats and products, notably
{Rich Text Format}, {Visual BASIC}, {Visual C++}, and {printer
drivers}; and in {IBM} {AFP} products.
Twips were devised in the olden days to describe the sizes of
characters produced by {dot matrix printers} that were
constrained to multiples of either 12 or 10 dots per inch.
[Is it definitely relative to a _Postscript_ point, as opposed
to one of the other definitions of {point}?]
(2002-03-11)