DIN A4 format
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- dopepope
Forgive my ignorance. what does this mean?
I was asked to supply printed examples of my work in this format.
- rabattski0
210mm x 297mm.
DIN = deutsche industrie norm
- rasko40
210mm x 297mm ??
- rabattski0
and in case you didn't know, germans like to standardize every possible thing.
- rabattski0
yep. that's din a4.
- dopepope0
Thanks! Being born and raised in nYc, I had no idea. And I'm not to swift with the metric system either. what would that be in inches? (I can actually look it up I guess.)
- rabattski0
ehm.. in inches:
8.2677003 x 11.6928904
roughly.
- JazX0
Deutschlander stuff ;)
- esnk0
Yeah thats about right... roughly :)
- Gorbie0
i think it means:
"Dinner for Matt"
do you know someone named Matt that is hungry?
- rabattski0
that would be DFM or for the popular people D4M. btw the typeface din is also deutsche industrie norm. allover the roadsigns here etc.
- JazX0
yeah it is
- dopepope0
thanks. I think.
- Gorbie0
Pope,
when you open a new document in almost any design application - you can select "A4" in the Page Size drop-down.
If you change the preferences in the application to show millimeters you'll see that it's at 210 x 297 mm, like Rasko and Rabattski said.
- ribit0
OMG.. The 'A' system is an international standard...it's hardly 'German'...
A search for 'paper sizes' on the ever-handy Google gives you this:
http://home.inter.net/eds/paper/…
- Gorbie0
nice link ribit. i'll quote that page for you...
"ISO (International Organization for Standardization) paper sizes--based on the earlier DIN (Deutsche Industrie Norm) sizes--are commonly used everywhere in the world except Canada and the United States"
- rabattski0
oopsydaisy.... :) rtfm? you also got to understand that the din is really old, very pre iso, basically invented in the first world war for standardizing guns and ammo (some say a lot of german soldiers have died because they were supplied with the wrong type of ammo due to variations in standards). that in combination with the german need for standardizing everything i can safely say (as well as the link you posted which gorbie quoted) that the A standard is very german. jawohl.
- ribit0
OK OK it was (very) German... but now it's like totally international and it's funny to see people in design who haven't even heard of it...
- rabattski0
well. the a standard doesn't excist in america and canada (prolly some others too). both countries added up are quite big. so i can imagine a huge a-clueless population who lived their lives without the glorious knowledge of the a standard or the din standard (although the last one is hard to deny since everyone here has used the din typeface but prolly never wondered what it stood for). then again metric vs non-metric. 210 x 297 looks a lot better than 8.2677003 x 11.6928904 :)
- Gorbie0
Working for ad agencies and now a printer - i can honestly tell you it is never used here in the USA.
The only time i've seen it is for european design contest entry guidlines.
Rabattski - do you happen to know what typeface the street signs in Berlin are set in?