2011/6/9 Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>:
>
> On Jun 9, 2011 9:30 AM, "damien clochard" <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
>>
>> Le 09/06/2011 02:38, Joshua D. Drake a écrit :
>> > On 06/08/2011 01:22 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> It seems to me, that this falls directly in line with education and
>> >>> one
>> >>> of the non profits would be willing to spend money to print at A4 to
>> >>> avoid problems such as this.
>> >>
>> >> That also falls under the heading of spending money we don't have to.
>> >> Especially since printing on A4 would cost us 4X as much as printing on
>> >> US, even if we were paying for printing on US.
>> >
>> > Just as a follow up to this, I thought JB was not quite accurate but I
>> > checked. It is going to be expensive to print this at A4. This didn't
>> > used to be true (which is why I checked) but nowadays with the whole
>> > on-demand thing, the printers have really unified (at least in the
>> > states) around our ridiculous measuring system.
>> >
>>
>> Understood.
>> My next question would be : "Is that true in others countries ?"
>>
>> What is the default paper format outside North America and Europe ?
>>
>
> I am pretty sure that A4 is the default everywhere except the us and Canada.
> Though japan may be different too?
Japan uses the DIN (ISO 216) system and A4 is in common use; e.g. the flyers
lying around on my desk are all A4 size.
"By 1975 so many countries were using the German system that it was
established as an ISO standard, as well as the official United Nations
document format. By 1977 A4 was the standard letter format in 88 of
148 countries. Today the standard has been adopted by all countries in
the world except the United States and Canada. In Mexico, Colombia,
Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and the Philippines the US letter format
is still in common use, despite their official adoption of the ISO
standard."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#The_international_standard:_ISO_216
Ian Barwick
