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In a message of Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:57:05 +0200, Cecil Westerhof writes:
>> Truly?  That's (very close to) 7 inch by 9 inch, 177.8 mm x 228.6 mm
>> and 7 by 9 is what pre-metric Britian called 'Small Post Quarto'.
>> I wonder if this merely a coincidence, or does some software really
>> still like this size?  How very weird.
>
>Well, it is possible I did not measure correctly. ;-) It is a 32 page
>booklet.
>
>-- 
>Cecil Westerhof
>Senior Software Engineer
>LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

Ah, I have been misunderstanding the question.  It's the booklet itself
that is 7 by 9, not the rasters (or whatever) you get when you first
scan the thing.  Sorry about that.

Laura