Twip

A twip is an Anglo-American unit length, and referred to the division " Twentieth of an Inch Point ", ie 1/20 point = 1/1440 inch.

The twip is an extremely fine unit:

The unit twip is used in calculations of text and graphics in the computer field, for example in the Graphics Device Interface ( GDI) of Microsoft's Windows operating system, the file format Windows Metafile ( WMF), in text format Rich Text Format (RTF ) or in the print data format AFP.

It should be noted here that the twip as eg parameters used in the Microsoft Windows, may also take on other values ​​. These are dependent on the print resolution. The above-mentioned Formula is valid for the case of 72 dpi. Here, a point is the size of 1/72: 1/ 20 * 1/72 = 1/1440

Thus arises in the case of 96 dpi by 1/1440 inch * 96 dots per inch size of 1/15 dots.