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The units used for scaling and locating text and pictures in
Survo PostScript applications are:

  1 point = 1/72 inches
            used in font sizes, line spacing and page length.
            It is also the basic unit in the user coordinate system.
  1 pica  = 1/12 inches = 6 points
            used in marginal setting (by [left_margin(x)]) and in
            printing width (by [trim(x)]).
  1 dmm   = 0.1 mm
            is the unit for all measurements related to Survo
            graphics. Also coordinates of pictures when locating them
            in PRINT (by - picture control lines) are given in dmm.
  S = More information on special features in PostScript printing