Since FreeHand gives you the option to scale down when you print, you
could, for example, design a large sheet, and print it at a reduced size to
get considerable accuracy. For example, FreeHand's basic units are 1/10,000
of a typographical point => 2834 units/mm (complain to typographers about
the 72 points/inch unit). You'd probably prefer dealing in millimeters, but
the underlying units are points, so there's a bit of roundoff when units
are displayed.

If you designed everything 10X larger, and printed at 10% scale, you could
increase the useable resolution.

Of course, you need to think about the resolution of the output typesetter,
which limits you to 10 micron dots on a 2540 dpi imagesetter (I don't know,
but suspect the accuracy of the imagesetter dot placement row-to-row is
probably less than IC lithography standard...)

Regards,

Jim


At 05:47 PM 6/22/99 -0700, Marvin Zai wrote:
>Dear MEMS people,
>
>I am trying to design cheap mask films using the software FREEHAND 7.
>
>However, the smallest feature I can draw on my screen seems to be 20
>micrometers.
>
>Is there a way to improve the resolution?
>
>Thank you for your help.
>
>Marvin
>
>
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