[Simh] PDF page sizes (was: Simh Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15)

Michael Unger unger at decus.de
Sat Sep 1 03:05:47 EDT 2007


On 2007-08-31 23:16, "Peter Lund" wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:49 -0400, Bob Supnik wrote:
> 
>> 4. Documentation files
>> 
>> PDF format is universally readable.  The alternative would be Word 
>> (the actual document source format).
> 
> Forgot to add: PDF files are formated to a specific page size (Letter,
> in this case).  Not everybody uses paper based on imperial units.
> 
> I can still print it out, of course, but Letter and Legal formated PDFs
> always end up looking a bit weird on DIN 476/ISO 216 A4.

Suggestion (which should sstisfy most of the users around the world):
use a page size of 11 inches (height) by 210 millimeters (width) which
can be printed on "Letter" and "A4" paper as well without scaling being
required.

Michael




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