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Subject:Re: Template Design Question - Print and On-Line From:Laurence Burrows <burrows -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:08:47 +1100
Marsha Lofthouse wrote:
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We also changed from a 7.5 x 9.5 inch format to an 8.5 x 11 inch format so
we would be wasting our customers' paper.
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<Sigh>
And, if you have customers outside the US of A, you might consider making
the format 8.2 x 11 inch so that _those_ customers can print to A4 paper
without all your lovely formatting going to sh*t...this still allows your
customers using US Letter to print without any problems.
See crude diagram below -- the taller rectangle is A4, the wider rectangle
is US Letter, the common area will print on _both_ formats.
