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Post by alc3261 on Aug 24, 2015 13:14:16 GMT
www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htmSo A4 is slightly bigger than Letter and slightly smaller than Legal. The old Imperial Foolscap size is slightly narrower than all of these and between Legal and A4 in length.
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Post by migo984 on Aug 24, 2015 23:18:36 GMT
It's not just UK/Europe. The SI metric system & sizes are used by nearly every country. I believe that the US is one of only three in the world that doesn't. (US, Burma, Libya?)
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Post by writingrav on Aug 25, 2015 0:09:17 GMT
We are stubborn that way. I have to keep a chart handy in order to negotiate buying paper from outside the US.
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Post by alc3261 on Aug 25, 2015 0:19:52 GMT
I have US size Letter Tomoe River, A4 & 5 trimmed sizes done by paperforfountainpens and Nanami and A4 Novi from Japan. I can't even find what exactly A4 Novi is (Google doesn't seem to know!!) PS And the B sizes too from Nanami.
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Post by bogon07 on Aug 25, 2015 2:08:06 GMT
www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htmSo A4 is slightly bigger than Letter and slightly smaller than Legal. The old Imperial Foolscap size is slightly narrower than all of these and between Legal and A4 in length. Thanks, that is a useful site and you can also input B sizes for Japanese (& other Asian countries I suppose) stationery. (US, Burma, Libya).....hmmm. Now that would make an interesting Quiz question, what do these countries have in common ?
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Post by writingrav on Aug 25, 2015 14:02:21 GMT
I have US size Letter Tomoe River, A4 & 5 trimmed sizes done by paperforfountainpens and Nanami and A4 Novi from Japan. I can't even find what exactly A4 Novi is (Google doesn't seem to know!!) PS And the B sizes too from Nanami. The problem with this site is that it gives the measurements in metrics...just as foreign to me as the paper sizes. I need inches. Ah, I see a tab for US sizes in inches now.
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Post by alc3261 on Aug 25, 2015 14:46:26 GMT
I have US size Letter Tomoe River, A4 & 5 trimmed sizes done by paperforfountainpens and Nanami and A4 Novi from Japan. I can't even find what exactly A4 Novi is (Google doesn't seem to know!!) PS And the B sizes too from Nanami. The problem with this site is that it gives the measurements in metrics...just as foreign to me as the paper sizes. I need inches. Ah, I see a tab for US sizes in inches now. My generation are strangely caught in the middle - semi-Imperial/semi-Metric!!
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Post by Mia on Aug 25, 2015 22:30:40 GMT
Yep, I use metric for shorter distances and weights, etc, but miles and stones.
I have various sizes of paper, from A4, down to about A7, however, I don't have envelopes to match all the sizes. I like the pads in Paperchase but the slightly larger than A5 ones need ~ 7 x 5 inch envelopes and I struggle to find these.
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Post by alc3261 on Aug 25, 2015 22:46:04 GMT
Yep, I use metric for shorter distances and weights, etc, but miles and stones. I have various sizes of paper, from A4, down to about A7, however, I don't have envelopes to match all the sizes. I like the pads in Paperchase but the slightly larger than A5 ones need ~ 7 x 5 inch envelopes and I struggle to find these. The We'RMemory Keepers envelope template (Amazon.co.uk or .com) does any size of envelope.
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Post by Mia on Aug 25, 2015 22:47:54 GMT
Yep, I use metric for shorter distances and weights, etc, but miles and stones. I have various sizes of paper, from A4, down to about A7, however, I don't have envelopes to match all the sizes. I like the pads in Paperchase but the slightly larger than A5 ones need ~ 7 x 5 inch envelopes and I struggle to find these. The We'RMemory Keepers envelope template (Amazon.co.uk or .com) does any size of envelope. On my wishlist for next month! But in the meantime, I've been making wonky envelopes!
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Post by MrAndersen on Oct 7, 2015 18:55:19 GMT
I've been making wonky envelopes! Bit of an old post I'm digging up here, but I thought I'd share a neat tip: Any size paper with roughly the same aspect ratio as A and B series (square root of 2) can be folded into a side-opening envelope for the same size paper tri-folded. Fold the letter and place it sideways on a sheet of the same size, matching the top edge. As precisely as you can, fold the envelope-to-be so that it wraps your letter. This should leave one side of the envelope long enough (between 5mm and 1cm) to glue up and close the edge. Then you just trim the ends any way you like, glue one, and you have an envelope. The resulting envelope is long and narrow - for extremely small sizes it can be a bit weird, but for A4, A5 and B5 I find it really nice.
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Post by ladytiger7647 on Oct 7, 2015 19:35:53 GMT
It drives me crazy when a penpal uses the larger size paper. It seems so big to me.
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Post by MrAndersen on Oct 7, 2015 19:43:59 GMT
It drives me crazy when a penpal uses the larger size paper. It seems so big to me. Uh oh. How big is 'too big'?
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Post by sgtstretch on Oct 7, 2015 20:47:06 GMT
I prefer A5 for correspondence, but I will occasionally use A4/Letter sized paper for letter writing.
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Post by ladytiger7647 on Oct 8, 2015 1:27:27 GMT
It drives me crazy when a penpal uses the larger size paper. It seems so big to me. Uh oh. How big is 'too big'? My vagueness was due to not being on an actual computer. I believe it would be considered A1 so more like paper for a computer.
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