Differences in Paper Sizes

Within each country, a small number of paper sizes are commonly used. Normally, one of those sizes is much more common than the others. Most countries follow ISO Standard 216: “Writing paper and certain classes of printed matter-Trimmed sizes-A and B series.”

Internationalized applications should not make assumptions about the page sizes available to them. The Oracle Solaris system provides no support for tracking the output page size. This tracking is the responsibility of the application program. The following table shows common international page sizes.

Table 1–7 Common International Page Sizes

Paper Type	Dimensions	Countries
ISO A4	21.0 cm by 29.7 cm	Everywhere except U.S.
ISO A5	14.8 cm by 21.0 cm	Everywhere except U.S.
JIS B4	25.9 cm by 36.65 cm	Japan
JIS B5	18.36 cm by 25.9 cm	Japan
U.S. Letter	8.5 inches by 11 inches	U.S. and Canada
U.S. Legal	8.5 inches by 14 inches	U.S. and Canada