What is the language "British"?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Aug 29 19:59:27 UTC 2006
Ed Greshko wrote:
> William Case wrote:
>
>
>>As a Canadian, I thoroughly understand what a pain in the ass it is to
>>get stuck with somebody else's spelling.
>
>
> What is actually a pain is having to get stuck with somebody else's
> paper size. Worked in the USA for a company with the HQ in London. The
> USA is standardized on 8.5x11 will the HQ in London uses A4. I think
> one can imagine the amount of work it can take to reformat product
> brochures so they can be downloaded and printed by USA based prospects.
>
> The difference between color and colour is nothing compared to that.
>
I would like to use the "A" sizes as they work so well.
Cut an A3 in half on the short width and you get two A4's.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
It is also an ISO 216 standard.
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Robin Laing
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