On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:55 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 12:26, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > I'm looking at the page size selector in Scribus, and the dimensions for > > ISO paper sizes (A0, B0, etc. - why no C?) are slightly off. All these > > sizes are defined as powers of the eighth root of 2 times a meter and then > > rounded to millimeters. So B0, going by the irrational value, is > > 1000.000*1414.214, which is rounded to 1000*1414 - but Scribus says it's > > 1000.478*1413.933. Similarly A0 is 840.896*1189.207, rounded to 841*1189, > > but Scribus says it's 839.611*1188.155. All the other A and B sizes are > > computed by dividing sides alternately by 2. The Scribus dimensions are > > rounded to points, but the sizes are defined in millimeters. > > Scribus uses points internally for everything.
Which is no excuse :) a point is some rational fraction of a millimeter, I believe. And actually I think it shouldn't, will that change to millimeters in 1.3? David
