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Is A4 sized paper hard to get hold of in the US?
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> And they all have suboptimal layouts. (my emphasis) My question would be - would you be willing to ascribe that to taste?
No. Try to layout a document on A4 while maintaining at least basic standard rules (e.g. lines of 8-12 words, a pretty text body layout, e.g. a "nice ratio" like 3/4 or 1/2, with standard margins, that is 1 on top, left and right and 2 on bottom). Since your font size will either be 11 or 12 pt on A4 because otherwise you use less than half of the paper or your font is really huge, you're not left with many options.
I find it curious that you just say:
> standard margins, that is 1 on top, left and right and 2 on bottom
No units, which makes me assume you're talking inches... Perhaps your problem is that you also need to switch to metric? ;-)
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> It was like talking to a brick wall. I know those types of conversations. They stay with you for months and sometimes years, never ceasing to irritate.
Sometimes the irritating part is when you realize that you're the brick wall.
When it's the other way round, you can find peace at some point (even if it takes months or years). But if you were the brick wall, it first takes months or years and THEN, when you finally do realize the reality of the situation, it takes even longer to settle. shudders
I really wish we'd switch to the ISO-216 sizes. A4 to A3 is so much more enjoyable and painless than Letter to Tabloid. This kind of thing came up often while making posters for campus because it was cheaper to NOT print out all of the posters on Tabloid. Rather, using a mix of Tabloid (for the important poster posting spots) and Letter (for unimportant spots and as flyers for handout). Always ended up having to spen…
Is there are reason that B5 sized paper sheets are only available as imports from Japan in Europe? The strict interpretation of the B series as a packaging format for the A series only seems somewhat archaic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#Japanese_B-series_va...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Try to layout a document on A4 while maintaining at least basic standard rules (e.g. lines of 8-12 words, a pretty text body layout, e.g. a "nice ratio" like 3/4 or 1/2, with standard margins, that is 1 on top, left and right and 2 on bottom). Since your font size will either be 11 or 12 pt on A4 because otherwise you use less than half of the paper or your font is really huge, you're not left with many options.
None of that makes much sense to me, to be honest. I find it curious that you just say: > standard margins, that is 1 on top, left and right and 2 on bottom No units, which makes me assume you're talking inches... Perhaps your problem is that you also need to switch to metric? ;-)