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Single-pixel Demonstration

This is a screen shot taken directly from a Macintosh 15 inch monitor,
converted to an 8-bit GIF file. We've bodered it so you can see where the gif file edges are.
We measured the pixels in the screen shapes, and it is a faithful reproduction
of what the demonstration is supposed to look like.

To make a side-by-side comparison, open this page in a separate browser window.
They should be exactly alike.

Hold your pica rule up to the first box above.
If it is NOT perfectly one pica, then your monitor is not showing you reality. We also tested this graphic, and the web page on a 600 dpi laser printer, and the boxes were within a point. Printing from the browser in both Postscript and directly through the "Print" command produced nearly the same results, with the Postscript being the most accurate of all.