Description of ISO Standard Paper Sizes

Markus Kuhn

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Nov 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/6/96

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I have put together a description of the International Standard
paper formats defined in ISO 216 (A4, etc.):

http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-paper.html

Links and suggestions for improvements are very welcome.

Markus

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro

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Nov 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/8/96

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In article <328021...@cs.purdue.edu>, Markus Kuhn <ku...@cs.purdue.edu>
wrote:

>I have put together a description of the International Standard
>paper formats defined in ISO 216 (A4, etc.):
>
> http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-paper.html

Cool. :-)

By the way, didn't the idea for the paper sizes come originally from DIN,
the German standards outfit?

pdds typographic

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Nov 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/9/96

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On Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:24:35 -0500, Markus Kuhn <ku...@cs.purdue.edu>
wrote:

>I have put together a description of the International Standard
>paper formats defined in ISO 216 (A4, etc.):
>
> http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-paper.html
>

Coincidentally, I just put up an ISO paper size chart on my homepage.
http://homepages.enterprise.net/pdds
(a pdf file)
I'll put a link to your page.

John Haxby

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Nov 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/11/96

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Markus Kuhn wrote:
> I have put together a description of the International Standard
> paper formats defined in ISO 216 (A4, etc.):
>
> http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-paper.html
>

> Links and suggestions for improvements are very welcome.

That's an extremely interesting article.

I was interested to hear that you can actually buy A4 paper in the US
now. Not all that many years ago I was working for a major computer
manufacturer (not the one that employs me now) and the Unix print system
maintainer knew almost nothing about ISO paper sizes. Not only that,
but he couldn't find a supplier of A4 so I sent him half a ream through
the internal mail for testing purposes :-)

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Markus Kuhn

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Nov 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/11/96

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John Haxby wrote:
> > http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-paper.html

> That's an extremely interesting article.
>
> I was interested to hear that you can actually buy A4 paper in the US
> now.

I just found out in the library to my big surprise that there is a new
U.S. national standard "ANSI/ASME Y14.1m-1995" that defines the ISO
paper formats to be used for technical drawings. So it seems that at
least the technical drawing community is going to use ISO paper formats
and this should certainly increase the availability of ISO format paper
and filing tools in the U.S. over the next few years.

Russell Schulz

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Nov 18, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/18/96

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John Haxby <j...@hazel.pwd.hp.com> writes:

> I was interested to hear that you can actually buy A4 paper in the US
> now.

I know that for the past few years where I work, we've done many jobs
in Europe and Australia which required us to test A4 printing, and I
don't recall having any major problems finding a supplier.

I doubt we can just walk down to the local photocopy place, but when
you're buying by the box...
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