On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:56:36PM +0000, Calum Polwart wrote: > 1. He says when it's (multivalent) scaling (actually - now that I think > of it he shouldn't be scaling, never mind!) from A4 to A5 the Horizontal > and Vertical Axis are scaled by different amounts which to me suggests > that the page isn't truely A4 or isn't truely A5... If I open a scribus > PDF it gives me page dimension - rather than A5... and they are 14.798 x > 20.998 for the A5 and multivalent puts two of those on a Page that it > calls A5 and they come out at 20.988 x 29.665 which is supposed to be > A4. > > Clearly there is an issue with 20.998 and 20.988 - one of them is > wrong... but who's? Also, what about the 14.798 -- 2 x 14.798 = > 29.596... > > So who's got the A4/A5 dimensions wrong?
Actually, both. A4 is 297 x 210 mm, no dot-something. Look here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papierformat http://www.directtools.de/wissen/normen/papierformate.htm English page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html Bye, Tino.
