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Re: standard paper sizes
From: |
rv |
Subject: |
Re: standard paper sizes |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Feb 1994 18:06:56 +0500 |
>I'm thinking of making it easier to change paper sizes by building in
>various standard paper sizes and giving them names, so that one could
>say things like
>
> @Book
> @Paper { A4 }
>
>instead of having to specify page width and height. However I'm no
>expert on paper sizes, the only ones I know at the moment are A3, A4
>and A5.
Here's an excerpt from the Ghostview man page.
rodrigo vanegas
address@hidden
|
| MEDIA
|
| The entries on the Media menu set the page media.
|
| [...]
|
| Here are the standard media names and their sizes.
| The size is given as the width and height in
| PostScript points.
| Letter 612 x 792 (8.5 x 11 in.)
| Tabloid 792 x 1224 (11 x 17 in.)
| Ledger 1224 x 792 (17 x 11 in.)
| Legal 612 x 1008 (8.5 x 14 in.)
| Statement 396 x 612 (5.5 x 8.5 in.)
| Executive 540 x 720 (7.5 x 10 in.)
| A3 842 x 1190
| A4 595 x 842
| A5 420 x 595
| B4 729 x 1032
| B5 516 x 729
| Folio 612 x 936 (8.5 x 13 in.)
| Quarto 610 x 780
| 10x14 720 x 1008 (10 x 14 in.)
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