On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:08, Tino Schwarze wrote: > 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
If you were to look into Scribus 1.3.x code, you will see the ISO standard formula for calculating the page sizes which I put in there very early on in 1.3.x to resolve non exact ISO page sizes in 1.2.x.. hence, we now have A4=210x297mm in the file new box.. and as a test i just exported to PDF and surprise surprise I got 210x297mm too. void PageSize::generatePageSizeList() has the calculations. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060125/df7eaac3/attachment.pgp
