[Scribus] ISO page sizes

[Gregory Pittman]

Craig Bradney wrote:

>On Friday 04 February 2005 17:31, Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>On Friday 04 February 2005 16:17, Pierre Abbat wrote:
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>>>On Friday 04 February 2005 10:04, Plinnell wrote:
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>>>>On Friday 04 February 2005 14:31, Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>>>>Yes but most professionals DTP people I've met actually THINK and
>>>>>WORK in pts.
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>>>>Correct.
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>>>>Some in picas and ciceros too ;-)
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>>>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.
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>>You already can.. I used Scribus in mm myself. Change the default unit! The
>>fact that there is a conversion issue is a TOTALLY different issue.
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>Sorry.. USE.. all the time.. that makes 10 issues of, on average, a 28 page 
>magazine, plus business cards, pocket calendars, birthday cards, etc etc.. 
>ALL in MM.. 
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>Craig
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It seems to me that unless you can get standard font sizes changed to 
mm, then it makes little sense to have everything else internally in mm. 
I would think that points came about as part of an effort to have a unit 
small enough to measure useful font sizes in whole numbers.
I like using Scribus with either pts or mm for the same reason -- you 
get to work with whole numbers more often.

Greg