Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Michael Unger Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:05:12 +0200 Organization: not that I'm aware of ... Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <10r71wjq9p81w$.ai9vifvcrqdx.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: 2015Q3.usenet.michaelunger@spamgourmet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +USZk+yfZ4ks/GUcE6SrSA3ZUyt9JgB1CYsWwzCQ+18Bp06vEz Cancel-Lock: sha1:8uHSX41VSFPhKWnMpY9N/TBL6Ag= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2310 On 2015-07-08 02:48, "tlvp" wrote: > In the former British colony I inhabit, also non-DIN formats like Letter, > Legal, Tabloid, and Ledger could come in handy. Those translate into > 215.9mm x 279.4mm, 215.9mm x 355.6mm, 279.4mm x 431.8mm, and its landscape > counterpart 431.8mm x 279.4mm. > > But A4 is a close approximation to Letter, and the others can all be > "cropped" from A3. And in quite a number of cases paper sized 210 mm wide and 11 inches high is used; i.e., "ISO A4" width and "US Letter" height. (It will fit into envelopes in Europe and the USA as well.) > [...] Michael -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid.