I am normally able to set the paper size via the software, but the default for most software (and certainly for Microsoft) appears to be US Letter. Just two hours ago my wife had a phone call from a friend of hers - could I help her to centre a Powerpoint presentation on a piece of paper as it was slightly off-centre. After she described the problem, I was able to talk her through setting up A4 as the default paper size for Powerpoint.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: [USMA:35242] Re: BBs > On Saturday 19 November 2005 04:50, Martin Vlietstra wrote: > > Printing industry slowly metricating? > > > > I don't know about the US, but in the UK the printing industry was one of > > the first industries to be metricated. The stationery merchants and office > > furniture merchants loved it - they could reduce the number of stock lines > > dramatically when quarto and foolscap lines of stationery were replaced > > with A4 lines of stationery (it halved the number of stock lines that they > > carried with no real reduction in customer choice). > > Does the software you tested allow you to set type size in millimeters? If you > set the paper size to A4 or B4, are the dimensions rounded to points, rounded > to millimeters, or irrational? > > PostScript still expresses all dimensions in points. You can set the scale to > millimeters, but that has to be done at the top of each page (preface doesn't > work), and the BoundingBox must be an integral number of points. > > phma >
