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2. Letter (paper size) - Wikipedia

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   The Reagan administration made Letter-size paper the norm for US federal forms in the early 1980s; previously, the smaller "official" Government Letter size, 8 by 10.5 inches (203.2 by 266.7 mm) (aspect ratio: 1.3125), was used in government, while 8.5-by-11-inch (215.9 by 279.4 mm) paper was standard in most other offices. [2]

3. Paper size - Wikipedia

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   It has the height of Canadian P4 paper (215 mm × 280 mm, about 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 11 in) and the width of international A4 paper (210 mm × 297 mm or 8.27 in × 11.69 in), i.e. it uses the smaller value among the two for each side. The table shows how this format can be generalized into an entire format series.

4. Foolscap folio - Wikipedia

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   Although metric, based on the A4 paper size, and named to suggest that it is part of the official ISO 216 paper sizes, it is only a de facto standard. It is often referred to as (metric) "foolscap" or "folio" because of its similarity to the traditional foolscap folio size of 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (216 mm × 343 mm).

5. Ruled paper - Wikipedia

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   Ruled paper is available in a variety of semi-standardized formats: Gregg ruled paper has ruling specialized for stenography. "Paper should be smooth and lined, dull in finish, with three lines to the inch and a line down the center." [11] Junior legal ruled paper is found on 5-by-8-inch junior legal pads. This can be equal to narrow or medium ...

6. Book size - Wikipedia

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   For example, a quarto (from Latin quartō, ablative form of quartus, fourth [3]) historically was a book printed on sheets of paper folded in half twice, with the first fold at right angles to the second, to produce 4 leaves (or 8 pages), each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed – note that a leaf refers to the single piece ...

7. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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   The French National Print Office adopted a point of 2 ⁄ 5 mm or 0.400 mm in about 1810 and continues to use this measurement today (though "recalibrated" to 0.398 77 mm). [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Japanese [ 24 ] and German [ 9 ] [ 16 ] [ 18 ] standardization bodies instead opted for a metric typographic base measure of exactly 1 ⁄ 4 mm or 0.250 ...