Digital BW, The Print

> From: Paul Aparycki
>
> It is actually the other way around, America uses funny paper
> sizes. Most of
> the world is on a metric system and has been since before you
> could count,
> or talk, or spell for that matter. If you wish to do the math, America is
> about 5-6 per cent of the world's population, and you think that
> because the
> rest of the world is different they are "funny"??? Get a reality
> check boy.

But those square-root-of-two-to-one aspect ratio sizes are really ugly in
portrait orientation. No classical painter ever painted a portrait with that
aspect ratio. 8.5x11 may not be perfect, but it's closer to the traditional
4:3 ratio.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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