Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist | By 1975 so many countries were using the German system that it was | established as an ISO standard, as well as the official United | Nations document format. By 1977 A4 was the standard letter format | in 88 of 148 countries, and TODAY ONLY THE U.S. AND CANADA HAVE NOT | ADOPTED THE SYSTEM.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size I'm annoyed because some PDF and PostScript documents provided by packages (i.e. in /usr/share/doc) are A4 sized, and some are Letter sized. Trying to print the latter on my laserjet requires me to stand in front of it and manually override the "PC Load Letter" request, sometimes for each page individually! PA4 is the largest format that fits on both A4 and U.S./Canadian "Letter" paper without resizing. I'd like this to be recommended as the paper size for PDF and PS documents in /usr/share/doc by Debian Policy. (Well, actually I'd like A4 to be recommended, but this would probably be vetoed by US DDs.) Obviously this wouldn't make *everyone* happy (e.g. people who want A5), but it seems to me that it would make *more* people happy than the current ad-hoc approach of using the default paper size in the package maintainer's locale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]