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walters@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tim Walters) writes:

>In article <1i9j4gEINN8nd@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
>}Here for the aprox. 5% of the world population that don't use ISO paper sizes
>}the dimensions of 3 of the most popular sizes:
>}
>}    A4    210 x 297 mm
>}    C5    162 x 229 mm (envelope for A4 folded to A6 format)
>}    DL    110 x 220 mm (envelope for A4 folded twice parallel)

>Printers in Germany and Japan use different sizes for the B series.
>The German value is specified by DIN; I believe the Japanese value is
>specified by some JIS standard:

>        DIN             JIS    
>B4      250x353         257x364
>B5      176x250         182x257
>B6      125x176         128x182

That's strange news!

However, the DIN standard says that it is compatible with the ISO standard,
only the tolerances allowed by DIN are smaller than those allowed by ISO,
which isn't an incompatibility.

How have the JIS people defined the B series? In ISO and DIN, it is
just the geometric mean between two A series sizes (geometric mean of
a and b is sqrt(a*b)).

Still confused ...

Perhaps you mean the following: DIN/ISO define paper end formats. You write
'printers ... use'. Do you mean the size of the paper delivered to the printer
before it is sent to the offset printing machine and cut to e.g. B4? Ok,
that is not the 'paper end format' that is of interest for the common user.

Markus

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