Re: Things that are making you crabbit! [4]

by Lancebloke Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:54 pm

Default setup will be A4. Just make sure your font isnt too big or small. Size 10-12 is about average.

by Mrs Figg Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:00 pm

@ all above

by Mrs Figg Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:05 pm

another question I did this document and on word thing it looks ok but when I print it the bottom is cut off the end of the page, whats going on with that? Mad

by halfwise Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:25 pm

Try doing 'preview' first. You might have your margins goofed up.

by Norc Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:52 pm

Eldorion wrote:We don't use A4 in the US, but I checked a few sites via Google and it seems like the average is about 400 words per page for A4, so that would be 15 pages. You can check the exact number of words in a document using the word count function in the tool menu, though.

u don't O_O what kind of world to u live in?!

by Norc Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:53 pm

Mrs Figg wrote:cool. 15 pages seems about right. thanks. :thumb:are computer pages the same size as A4? like a Word document page. would 6000 words still be 15 pages?

yes, word documents are A4, although i can change it, but most likely, if u haven't changed it, it is in A4 Smile

by Eldorion Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:57 pm

Norc wrote:u don't O_O what kind of world to u live in?!

An 8.5 by 11 inches world. Razz

by Norc Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:01 pm

that's bloody stupid.

by Eldorion Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:03 pm

We seem to be doing okay.

by bungobaggins Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:08 pm

Eldorion wrote:We seem to be doing okay.

I don't know, Eldo. I'm beginning to question everything I ever understood over this A4 business.

Spoiler:

by Mrs Figg Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:22 pm

halfwise wrote:Try doing 'preview' first. You might have your margins goofed up.

thats all part of technodoofus problemz What a Face

by Ringdrotten Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:48 pm

Eldorion wrote:We don't use A4 in the US, but I checked a few sites via Google and it seems like the average is about 400 words per page for A4, so that would be 15 pages. You can check the exact number of words in a document using the word count function in the tool menu, though.

How odd, I thought everyone used A4, much like everyone wears shoes Very Happy

(okay, perhaps jungle people don't wear shoes, but they probably don't care much about sheet sizes either Laughing

) One learns something new every day study

by Eldorion Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:59 pm

We've dragged Canada down with us into our primitive A4-less backwater! Twisted Evil

And Mexico, the Philippines, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile.

by halfwise Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:48 pm

The standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper is so common for us we can't imagine anyone in the world would use something different. Shocked

It's slightly wider and slightly shorter than A4.

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:56 pm

A4 is easier to say and so wins. Nod

You can even ask it for drunk. drunken

by halfwise Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:18 am

We call it "letter". Very easy to remember, unlike, say, A4.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:38 am

Thats just bloody typically American, youve confused the paper a letter is written on with the thing itself Evil or Very Mad

And in our system if you want different sizes of paper you just change the number, like A1. Much easier to remember when drunk than complete words.

by halfwise Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:01 am

typing paper comes in Letter and Legal, that's it. You probably have to remember what each size means - for us it's just normal or a bit longer.

Also large and small postcard sizes.

by Eldorion Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:38 am

Halfy is right, but the legal size paper is basicallynever used outside of the legal and business professions, and even there it's falling out of favor. We're pretty much all 8.5 x 11 here. So in a way, it's actually even simpler than in the rest of the world, because for all intents and purposes we have only one paper size. Nod

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:20 am

So what happens if you need a bigger bit, say to do a poster on? (That'd be A1)

I found a pic of the proper sizes, with your US ones superimposed like an out of place childs drawing on top-

Things that are making you crabbit! [4] - Page 9 A-series-paper-sizes-1-full_zps7a0932b8

Things that are making you crabbit! [4] - Page 9 A-series-paper-sizes-1-full_zps7a0932b8

by Eldorion Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:27 am

Then you'd go to a professional print shop to get all the specialist stuff, but we're talking about typing paper. I don't have to have seen a UK printer to know that you guys don't actually type on those monstrous A1 sheets, nor would the average person have the means to print one.

And I notice your casual slur of "US sizes" despite the fact that the US is one of several countries that uses the 8.5 x 11 standard.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:29 am

My printer goes up to A3.

When I was doing graphic design I regularly bought A1.

by Eldorion Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:31 am

Sometimes I've printed stuff out on multiple sheets and then taped them together on a posterboard. It's an imperfect system and I'm not pretending that 8.5 x 11 was handed down by the gods or anything, but it gets the job done. Sometimes I get sick of the Euros (on here and elsewhere) who feel the need to rag on all the little differences. Same shit as the whole football thing.

And if you were working in graphic design I think you fell under the category of (working with) professional printing stuff.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:33 am

Well if you did things properly and sensibly it wouldnt happen Mad

by Eldorion Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:35 am

I actually have a lot of respect for the whole standardization movement and the spirit of rationality that stuff like the paper size system, the metric system, and whatnot were devised in during the French Revolution. But people who use it as an excuse for nationalistic dick-waving make me (momentarily) glad the US doesn't use that stuff. Mad

{{{And if I seem more crabbit than usual it's probably because I've been unable to eat much of anything today due to being sick.}}}