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From: Kevin Spruill
Date: Jan 7, 2003 3:12PM


Jules, et al...

Rough justice division reveals that by dividing #pixels by 16 you get the equivalent in ems... a little tweaking from there should handle it if/when necessary

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Kevin Spruill
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Despite the fact that the bytowninternet.com example you gave is quite an
eye-opener, it raises the question, how does one measure in ems or convert
from Photoshop pixels to HTML ems?

Jules

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