Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/

2010-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:44:18PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:27:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:44:18PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: PA4 is the largest format that fits on both A4 and U.S./Canadian "L

Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:44:18PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:27:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > 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 P

Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/

2008-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
"Trent W. Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, so I should raise "please use PA4" bugs against individual > packages that ship Letter (or A4) PDFs, and then once most of them > have been fixed re-open this (#495170) bug? Well, I'd start with debian-devel first and see if you can get people to

Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/

2008-08-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:27:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > 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. > > I'm not

Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/

2008-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
"Trent W. Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/

2008-08-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
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