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 Solaris system provides no support for tracking output page size. Tracking this 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 |