[libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
> On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
> > > Europe A4 size
> >
> > Perhaps that should be
> > "everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size".
> >
> > Brian Barker
>
> I do not know about the rest of the world.
> I knew that Europe tend to use A4.
>
> Why USA and Canada uses "letter size" when the rest use A4, who knows.

Here is a short history on it:

http://www.serif.com/blog/a-quick-history-on-a4-and-letter-paper-sizes/

Canada follows the US for obvious reasons. IMO, I would rather follow 
with the A4 and metric sizes, we should all be following the metric sizing.

Cheers,

Marc

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