Re: Print Issue

To be really nit-picky, Ansi specs define 8.5 x 11 "drawing" sheets as 'A' 
size in both landscape and portrait orientation. One could also be picky 
back and say yeah but that's for drawings but this size sheet more often 
contains just textual information.
Sooooo.....engineering types often refer to A size instead of Letter.
Best,
Dave G.

At 09:25 AM 8/23/00 -0400, KeithWBell(at)aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 23/08/00 13:23:20 GMT Daylight Time, kjones(at)adam.com.au
>writes:
>
> > I haven't looked at the site in question here, but just thought I would
> >  point out that Australian A4 paper and American A4 are different in size.
> >
> >  Australian A4 is 11 and a half inches long by 8 and a quarter inches wide.
> >  American A4 is 11 inches long by 8 and a half inches wide.
>
>Paper sizes do seem to cause a lot of confusion! Actually, A4 is an
>international standard (defined in ISO 216:1975 "Writing paper and certain
>classes of printed matter -- Trimmed sizes -- A and B series") and there is
>only ONE size of A4, which is 297mm by 210mm. Anything else is not A4. The
>11in by 8.5in size more commonly used in the USA is known as "Letter".
>
>A good explanation of the ISO 216 paper sizes is at:
>
>www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
>
>This and mountains of other useless information from...
>Keith Bell

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