Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/
"Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm annoyed because some PDF and PostScript documents provided by
> packages (i.e. in /usr/share/doc) are A4 sized, and some are Letter
> sized. Trying to print the latter on my laserjet requires me to stand
> in front of it and manually override the "PC Load Letter" request,
> sometimes for each page individually!
>
> PA4 is the largest format that fits on both A4 and U.S./Canadian
> "Letter" paper without resizing. I'd like this to be recommended as
> the paper size for PDF and PS documents in /usr/share/doc by Debian
> Policy. (Well, actually I'd like A4 to be recommended, but this would
> probably be vetoed by US DDs.)
I'm not sure Policy is the appropriate place to start with a request like
this. Policy for the most part codifies things that are already generally
accepted by the project and widely implemented in the project. The best
way to make changes like this is to build a consensus among Debian
developers that it is the right thing to do and to implement it widely,
and only then propose the Policy change.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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