David King
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Jim Elwell wrote:
At 8 12 04, 03:01 PM, David King wrote:
What a pity it was not on a metric sized page!
David King
Two comments:
(a) The original attachment was a DOC file; I converted it to a PDF. I don't know Word well enough to know if the original was in a particular size (my word processor of choice is WordPerfect).
(b) As has been pointed out here before, paper sizes are NOT part of the SI standard. Sure, some countries that use SI metric tend to use A4 "letter size" paper, but many other "standards" are out there, both metric and otherwise.
Personally, I go back on forth on the "metric" paper issue. Since I am involved in a lot of printing, I know that the size of paper of most mass printed documents (i.e., from a commercial printer, not our of our personal computer printers, such as newspapers, documents, mass mailings, catalogs, etc.) is NOT the size of the paper on which the document is printed.
For example, I assist with printing Metric Today, which has an A4 finished size. But, it is folded in half, so it has an A3 trim size. But, like all printed material, it is really printed on oversize paper then trimmed to size. I think the master sheets are about 20x26" (two-up), but it really does not matter. If we printed in really large volumes, it would be done four-up and the original sheets would be even larger.
Given all this, I have a hard time getting too worked up about "metric" paper. As much as I've converted QSI to metric, this is something I've never bothered with, and we use 8-1/2x11 paper in our printers.
Our QSI catalog is intentionally designed for a final trim size of 11" high by 210 mm wide, so it fits anyone's filing system.
Jim Elwell
Jim Elwell, CAMS Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
