[pdftex] 1px is not 1bp which seems to contradict the pdftex manual
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Fri Feb 2 17:33:04 CET 2024
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:24:04 +0200
To: "<pdftex at tug.org>" <pdftex at tug.org>
....
For a pdftex user to revert to pdfTeX default after a change to "px"
unit, the input "\pdfpxdimen 1.00001bp"
I (finally) changed the description of \pdfpxdimen to mention this tiny
discrepancy, and that is not *exactly* 72dpi:
The default value of \cs{pdfpxdimen} is 1.00001bp (for historical
reasons), corresponding to a pixel density of (a few sp off from) 72dpi.
The \LUATEX\ default is 1bp (also a few sp off from 72dpi), so to get
precisely the same behavior in \PDFTEX\ and \LUATEX, set
\cs{pdfpxdimen}\texttt{=1bp}.
Best,
Karl
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