>At 10:05 30/05/98 -0700, Kathy wrote:
>>At 11:01 AM +1000 5/27/98, Frank Lee wrote:
>>
>>Frank -- the paper my hubbie uses in Malaysia is narrower than 8.5 and
>>longer than 11 ... not bigger all around ... ??
>>
>>Kathy
>>
>
>Yep, you're right! I miscalculated. 210mm is 8.2677" while 297mm is 11.69".
>So yes, slightly longer and narrower. Enough of a difference to really
>throw printed documents out of whack, tho.


Yes -- the point for web design being -- if you have fixed table widths and
an international audience, then even 590 is too wide (unless you have a
sophisticated audience who knows how to "scale" their postscript printer --
scaling only works on postscript printers, apparantly).

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Kathy E. Gill, Guide - http://agriculture.miningco.com/
Publisher, eNetDigest - http://www.enetdigest.com/
WWW design � writing � training - http://www.dotparagon.com/

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