On 6/16/05, Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:39:26 -0500, David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> wrote: | Why? With decent margins, you can print letter on A4 or vice versa. | And we aren't really talking typesetters here; typesetters don't care | why size paper it is, since they're going to rip it apart and re-set | it anyway. We're talking about people who are dumping our preformed | blob to paper.
Please note the Subject of this thread: Print-on-demand and dead-tree copies of Gutenberg texts.
I noted it. I don't see how it changes anything.
IMO felling trees is a Bad Idea, especially when with a little thought fewer trees could be felled.
Generous margins are always nice, and printing letter on A4 doesn't cause more trees to be cut down; it's the same amount of text, shaped differently.
Inconsistent use of SI units and international standard paper sizes remain today a primary cause for U.S. businesses failing to meet the expectations of customers worldwide.
And use of international standard paper sizes remains today a primary cause of international businesses failing to meet the expectations of American customers. It's cute how you point out that all the print-on-demand places are in America; perhaps that means that we should use American paper sizes, then?