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In Indonesia, where it is the legally-mandated paper size for use in the printing of national legislation, it is sometimes called Folio or HVS (from Dutch: houtvrij schrijfpapier, "wood-free writing paper"). In Philippines, it is commonly called long bond as opposed to short bond which refers to the US Letter paper size.
Bond paper is a high-quality durable writing paper similar to bank paper but having a weight greater than 50 g/m 2. The most common weights are 60 g/m 2 (16 lb), 75 g/m 2 (20 lb) and 90 g/m 2 (24 lb). The name comes from its having originally been made for documents such as government bonds.
Visualization with paper sizes in formats A0 to A8, exhibited at the science museum CosmoCaixa Barcelona An A4 paper sheet folded into two A5 size pages. ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America.
[citation needed] A4 ("metric") paper is easier to obtain in the US than US letter can be had elsewhere. [citation needed]. The ISO 216:2007 is the current international standard for paper sizes, including writing papers and some types of printing papers. This standard describes the paper sizes under what the ISO calls the A, B, and C series ...
However, a sheet of common copy paper that has a basis weight of 20 pounds (9.1 kg) does not have the same mass as the same size sheet of coarse paper (newsprint). In the former case, the standard ream is 500 sheets of 17-by-22-inch (432 by 559 mm) paper, and in the latter, 500 sheets of 24-by-36-inch (610 by 914 mm) paper.
A ream of paper is a quantity of sheets of the same size and quality. International standards organizations define the ream as 500 identical sheets. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ Note 2 ] This ream of 500 sheets (20 quires of 25 sheets) is also known as a 'long' ream, and is gradually replacing the old value of 480 sheets, now known as a 'short' ream.
A comparison of the A4 and Foolscap folio papersize. Foolscap folio, commonly contracted to foolscap or cap or folio and in short FC, is paper cut to the size of 8.5 × 13.5 in (216 × 343 mm) for printing or to 8 × 13 in (203 × 330 mm) for "normal" writing paper (foolscap). [1]
Comparison of some near-A4 paper sizes: Image title: Comparison of A4, C4, PA4, Legal, Letter/ANSI A, Government letter, Foolscap folio and Arch A paper, as well as 8R/6P and S8R/6PW photographic paper sizes by CMG Lee. In the SVG file, hover over an outline or its label to highlight it. Width: 100%: Height: 100%