[Scribus] ISO page sizes

Plinnell scribusdocs
Fri Feb 4 16:37:36 CET 2005


On Friday 04 February 2005 16:17, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday 04 February 2005 10:04, Plinnell wrote:
> > On Friday 04 February 2005 14:31, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > > Yes but most professionals DTP people I've met actually THINK and WORK
> > > in pts.
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > Some in picas and ciceros too ;-)
>
> We should make the program usable by people who aren't professional DTP
> people and know only the meter and its power of 10 multiples as units of
> length. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/metric-typo/ for more details.
>
> phma

Existing link which I've added to the web links database on www.scribus.net

Reading through that essay, there is some really sensible ideas and proposals, 
but changing some of these standards will not be easy.

Peter





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