Re: PostgreSQL Magazine #00 is out ! Send feedback please !

On Jun 9, 2011 9:30 AM, "damien clochard" <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
>
> Le 09/06/2011 02:38, Joshua D. Drake a écrit :
> > On 06/08/2011 01:22 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>
> >>> It seems to me, that this falls directly in line with education and
one
> >>> of the non profits would be willing to spend money to print at A4 to
> >>> avoid problems such as this.
> >>
> >> That also falls under the heading of spending money we don't have to.
> >> Especially since printing on A4 would cost us 4X as much as printing on
> >> US, even if we were paying for printing on US.
> >
> > Just as a follow up to this, I thought JB was not quite accurate but I
> > checked. It is going to be expensive to print this at A4. This didn't
> > used to be true (which is why I checked) but nowadays with the whole
> > on-demand thing, the printers have really unified (at least in the
> > states) around our ridiculous measuring system.
> >
>
> Understood.
> My next question would be : "Is that true in others countries ?"
>
> What is the default paper format outside North America and Europe ?
>

I am pretty sure that A4 is the default everywhere except the us and Canada.
Though japan may be different too?

/Magnus