Points, pitch and lines per inch

[Djones9976]

I specified arial 12pt in the preamble of my document.   But how can I control the pitch (i.e. characters per inch) and lines per inch in the document; or how can I tell what the pdf is being printed in?   
Thank you,
D. W. Jones
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