Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing?

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing?
Date	2025-08-29 23:01 +0200
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On 2025-08-29 04:51, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2025/8/28 23:15:49, Marion wrote:
> 
> []


>>> (A5 is just UK/EU for "half A4". The A series of sizes are very logical
>>> like that! [They go from A0 down to at least A7.])
>>
>> Many things are done differently across the Pond. :)
> 
> We in UK used to have our own set of paper sizes, with names like
> foolscap, quarto, and so on - they may or may not have been the same as
> what US uses. But we switched to the A series quite a long time ago;
> they scale by root 2, meaning if you put two (say) A4 sheets side by
> side, you have A3, and so on. I think the top - A1 or A0 - is either a
> metre on one side, or a square metre - let me look: Hmm, "A0 (841 x 1189
> mm), A1 (594 x 841 mm), A4 (210 x 297 mm), and A5 (148 x 210 mm),", so
> no 1m side, but 841 by 1189 comes out at 999949, so that's a square
> metre within cutting tolerances. (I've heard of smaller sizes too -
> certainly A5, and I think A6 and A7 too, for things like index cards.)
> Out of interest, there's also C (cover) sizes for envelopes: a C4
> envelope will hold A4 pages without folding, for example. (The commonest
> business size envelope is - or used to be - the one that holds A4 sheets
> folded into 3 in a Z, though lately seems to be more C5, i. e. holds A4
> sheets folded in half.)


There is more to it. When drawing plans, the thickness of lines is also 
part of the standard. When you zoom an A size to the next, the thickness 
of the lines also scale correctly.

But I don't remember the details, this was on a drawing course I had at 
UNI long ago.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 01:12 +0000
  Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-28 03:38 +0100
    Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 22:15 +0000
      Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 03:51 +0100
        Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 04:07 +0000
          Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 20:16 +0100
            Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 19:44 +0000
              Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2025-11-05 11:28 +0000
              Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2026-04-18 23:03 +0100
                Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-19 00:39 +0200
        Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-29 23:01 +0200
    Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-29 22:56 +0200
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