On 2010/06/20, at 06:47 , Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 20:14:25 Michael Payne wrote:
I agree with John Frewen-Lord that Adobe is a nuisance, I print on
A4 paper
but the document is all inches. Even my HP printer gives the size
of the
paper in inches and decimal inches for the A4 size. All very
annoying.
I have yet to see a word processor or page layout program that
allows me to
specify the type size in millimeters. And when I write a program to
generate
PostScript (usually for graphing something), I have to start every
page by
changing the scale to millimeters.
Pierre
Dear Pierre,
Have you considered how much it costs you to spend those few seconds
on every page. Now multiply that amount by all drawing people (such
engineers) in the USA. It makes my estimate at http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf
look more realistic.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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