How big are your sheets of paper in the UK? We use inches, so our sheets of paper are 8.5 inches by 11 inches, however, since you use metric, are your sheets 21.59 cm by 27.94 cm?
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Page sizes in UK
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Um.......yeah, us North Americans decided not to stick with standards, so we don't use A sizes. I only figured out "A" sizes around 3 months ago. Its very simple, and quite good. Get 2 sheets of A4, and you can imagine exactly what an A3 looks like, etc.
Abstract said:
yeah although i never figured out why when the paper gets bigger, the number gets smaller, and then there's the B sizes too
so yeah, "letter" size is roughly the same as "A4" 8.5"x11" to 210mm x 297mm (216mm x 279mm to 8.3" x 11.7")
"tabloid" is roughly the same as "A3" too.
evoluzione said:yeah although i never figured out why when the paper gets bigger, the number gets smaller, and then there's the B sizes too
so yeah, "letter" size is roughly the same as "A4" 8.5"x11" to 210mm x 297mm (216mm x 279mm to 8.3" x 11.7")
"tabloid" is roughly the same as "A3" too.
The numbers make sense from a planning standpoint. You keep dividing the paper size in half to create the next size until it's too small to be of official use.
I've got 13x19 inch photo paper that is listed as Super A3 and A3+.
evoluzione said:yeah although i never figured out why when the paper gets bigger, the number gets smaller, and then there's the B sizes too
the A0 has the area of 1 m^2 and the numbers are actually easy to understand since it's just the number how often the half of an A0 sized papers have been cut away
has a few oter nice things: like old paper sizes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
They're just there in case you need something inbetween...evoluzione said:...and then there's the B sizes too