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Re: Embedding strings in multiple languages into PostScript

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On 2016-04-29 18:57, "jdaw1" wrote:

>> Why not consolidate these two documents into a single one? Width: 8.5
>> inches (US Letter), height: 210 millimeters (ISO A4). That seems to be a
>> rather common size for international publications.
> 
> You mean height = 11" = 792pt; width = 210mm ≈ 595.276pt. 

You are correct with respect to "11 inches" (sorry, my mistake) -- but
most of the pages of your document are in landscape mode.

> I could. But some printers might try to mis-scale it, and in something
> in which scale is important, why risk it?

To the best of my knowledge the most important options for "Adobe
Reader" (I can't comment on other PDF readers) are "don't scale" and
"automatically center"; I'm aware that quite a lot of users don't care
at all.

Michael

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Embedding strings in multiple languages into PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 06:53 -0700
  Re: Embedding strings in multiple languages into PostScript Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2016-04-29 16:55 +0200
    Re: Embedding strings in multiple languages into PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 09:57 -0700
      Re: Embedding strings in multiple languages into PostScript Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2016-04-29 20:49 +0200
        Re: Embedding strings in multiple languages into PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 03:37 -0700

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