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Message no. 1
From: "Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject: A4 to letter and back
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:25:07 GMT
> Tal Kedem said on 1 Apr 96...
>
> > But it's A4 paper... :(
>
> Come to the civilized part of the world, then :)
>
> > Silly me, an American. When are the Letter size versions ready?
>
> Someone is working on them at the moment, it seems. At least, he was
> asking me questions about how to resize some graphics, so I guess it
> shouldn't be too long.
>

Having had to do this for non SR reasons there is an easy way!
Assuming the origonal file has sensible margins (1inch / 2.5 cm) or
so or more then just select the other paper size and change the
margins to suit, takes a minitue with pencil and paper to work out
the margins such that the paper area used for the text remains the
same despite the new paper dimensions, ok two of the margins on the
resulting printout will be rather small but that shouldn't matter. To
give some idea WP6.0 will do a 600 odd Kb file in a few seconds this
way and thats on a 386 4Mb. Ok i strongly advise you to put the
target files on a hard drive (once tried to open Guruths CP2020
chrome 1, 2 & 3 from floppy bad move. It worked but!)

That should solve paper problems.
Message no. 2
From: "A. Blair Blackwell" <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: A4 to letter and back
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:18:07 -0500 (EST)
At 12:25 4/4/96 GMT, you wrote:
>> Tal Kedem said on 1 Apr 96...
>>
>> > But it's A4 paper... :(
>>
>> Come to the civilized part of the world, then :)
>>
>> > Silly me, an American. When are the Letter size versions ready?
>>
>> Someone is working on them at the moment, it seems. At least, he was
>> asking me questions about how to resize some graphics, so I guess it
>> shouldn't be too long.
>>
>
>Having had to do this for non SR reasons there is an easy way!
>Assuming the origonal file has sensible margins (1inch / 2.5 cm) or
>so or more then just select the other paper size and change the
>margins to suit, takes a minitue with pencil and paper to work out
>the margins such that the paper area used for the text remains the
>same despite the new paper dimensions, ok two of the margins on the
>resulting printout will be rather small but that shouldn't matter. To
>give some idea WP6.0 will do a 600 odd Kb file in a few seconds this
>way and thats on a 386 4Mb. Ok i strongly advise you to put the
>target files on a hard drive (once tried to open Guruths CP2020
>chrome 1, 2 & 3 from floppy bad move. It worked but!)
>
>That should solve paper problems.
>

How did you get WP6.0 to open a Word6 document? Their not compatable at all.

BLAIR

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