Frank Arthur wrote:
No need to, it already exists. It is called A4. With it's dimensions of
210mm x 297 mm, it's almost 2:3 and you can print your 8' x 12' images
with minimal paper loss. The beauty of ISO paper sizes is that all sizes
have the same length:width ratio. See
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html. That's why the ISO paper
formats are the world standard; it's very practical! Only old fashioned
North-America cannot understand that and must stick to the old fashioned
formats like letter, legal etc. together with the old fashioned
unpractical inches, miles, pounds, onces etc. The SI-system (aka
"metric") is really much easier to work with.
See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html

Step into the 21st century!

Menno wrote:

You mean "step into the 1970's", don't you?
German paper standard DIN 476 was adopted as an ISO standard for paper
sizes as ISO 216 and as the official United Nations document format in 1975.

Incidently, German DIN 476 was adopted in 1922.

Paraphrased from <http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/Art_App3.htm>

"Menno" <reply_to_group (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote

I agree and have been a long time strong advocate of switching to Metrics.
Unfortunately Americans would sooner die than give up their inch system.
A4 would be great but available mats, frames etc are for 8 x 12 inches and
A4 mats or frames are not sold here.