On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:10, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 05:54, Ed Greshko wrote: > >William Case wrote: > >> As a Canadian, I thoroughly understand what a pain in the ass it is to > >> get stuck with somebody else's spelling. > > > >What is actually a pain is having to get stuck with somebody else's > >paper size. Worked in the USA for a company with the HQ in London. The > >USA is standardized on 8.5x11 will the HQ in London uses A4. I think > >one can imagine the amount of work it can take to reformat product > >brochures so they can be downloaded and printed by USA based prospects. > > > >The difference between color and colour is nothing compared to that. > > I'll second that opinion. It wouldn't be so bad, except when I walk into > Staples et all, looking for A4 size paper, they have absolutely no clue > that the US seems to be the only user of the 8.5x11 format. And they > cannot grok what difference it makes at all. Very very frustrating. > > -- > Cheers, Gene According to something I found on Google about International paper sizes, Staples, "they say", has now started stocking A4 paper, under item # HAM103036. I thought that the US letter 8½ x 11 might have tied in with the old UK imperial sizes, but what I used to buy as "Quarto", is only 8 x 10, which ties in with the 8 x 10 photographic printing paper, That I, years ago used to use. There is one listed called "Medium Quarto" which is 8½ x 11, and ties in nicely with US letter. Ramble over. Nigel. > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
