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Subject:Single source docs for multiple media? From:Laurence Burrows <burrows -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:01:09 +1000
"Geoff Hart (by way of \"Eric J. Ray\" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>)" wrote:
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To which I say a hearty amen. Until the standard computer monitor is
at least 8.5X11 inches in portrait mode (vertical) and has 300 dpi
resolution or better, the paper and online media are too different
for a "one size fits all" approach.
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OK! Hold it right there!
[US Letter] 8,5 x 11 inches (or 215.9 x 279.4 mm) is OK for the USA in
1998. For the rest of the world it needs to be A4 (209.9 x 297.0 mm),
which is taller and narrower.
If you ensure that anything you publish will fit either format, e.g. the
smaller height and width of the two sizes (which would be 209.9 x 279.4 mm)
then *all* of us can print it.
Otherwise you are not looking beyond meeting just your needs when you
publish...
