Twip

2 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  TWIP
       [one] TWentIeth of a Point [1 inch = 72 points] (DTP)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  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)