Mar
A4 or letter size
What I would like to share is my amazement in trainers, and training authors who send manuals for printing with the page size set at letter size. We cannot change the page size to A4 as the document then reflows. So we print "fit to page". This works but it looks unprofessional as the page is shrunk by 4%. I have spoken to the trainers but they don’t listen so I just print. Also the length of letter size is 279mm which means that just an effective 90% of the length is used. What a waste of space.
Just because Americans don’t want to know about the beauty of the ISO paper sizes doesn’t mean we should blindly follow them. The main size is A4 and there are 16 A4 pages in a square metre. Thus your photocopy paper weighs 5 grams a sheet. 80 Grams divided by 16 sheets. This is one of the beauties of this system. The ISO system uses the square root of 2 (1.41) for its dimensions thus 297 divided by 1.41 is 210, try it.
So to the manual writers out there use A4 size as there are untold advantages to this.
