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Hello All<br>
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While I agree about the use of two templates, there's a more
philosophical aspect to this that has not been mentioned. When we
talk about page size, we refer to the physical paper on which a
document will be printed. But a more important consideration from an
aesthetic point of view is the text block size. If you're one of
those people who goes for one-inch margins all round, this is not an
issue. A typographical purist, on the other hand, would want to
consider all the dimensions on the page: text block height and width
(and therefore ratio), ratios of margins to text block, placement of
headers and footers, etc. In most cases the right and left margins
would be different, and so would the top and bottom. (William
Bringhurst's book "Elements of Typographical Style" is a great
resource for this.)<br>
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To do this properly you would indeed need to use two different
templates with different dimensions for all of these, in order to
maintain pleasing ratios. But you could do a pretty good job with a
single template if your text block size is well chosen. The few
millimetres difference between letter size and A4 when printed would
not interfere too much with the layout. And you would have none of
the problems associated with reflow of content between the two page
sizes.<br>
<br>
Just my 2c.<br>
<br>
Roger Shuttleworth<br>
London, Canada<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/02/2013 10:57 AM, Lise Bible
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAKcWqWy9+G3VmhVsPEYnRB5oN0=ZfYmcKXrhAxdwkADW7-eoOQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Fellow Framers,</font>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I'm mostly a lurker, but have
found the wealth of knowledge shared by this list's members to
be quite helpful!</font></div>
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<font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
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<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I have a manual (I'm on Frame
8) in which I've used conditional text to show/hide tables,
text, parts lists depending on if it's for the American market
or European.</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">This manual originated for a
US-made product so it started life with 8.5x11 (US-letter
size) pages. And it didn't even occur to me that it might need
to be A4-sized for the European market.</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Is there a good way to switch
back and forth between A4 and 8.5x11 page sizes, depending on
which version of a book you want to print?</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I have the sneaking suspicion
that I will have to break this into two separate books, but I
figured I'd ask to see if anyone had recommendations.<br
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Lise</font></div>
-- <br>
<font color="#008000" face="Arial" lang="0"><b>Save the earth.</b></font><font
color="#a13f00" face="Arial" lang="0"> It's the only planet
with chocolate.</font>
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