What's the diff between A4 & B4 sizing?

[Chaloots]

On numerous apps I've seen several choices for re-sizing an image: A4, B4,
Nametag, Postcard, etc....After doing a Google search it was revealed that
they're all variants of a North American ISO standard. While knowing enough
not to expect any good results blowing a 640 X 480 file to, let's say a 4 X
6 print, where would an intermediate image buff like myself go to get a
red-hen, plain English explanation on what the other choices do and mean?

 

[Mary Sauer]

A good place to start
http://home.inter.net/eds/paper/papersize.html

 

[Yves Alarie]

I don't know what you found with google but this site has everything about
paper size:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
It also has a conversion table from millimeters to inches for all the sizes.

 

[Chaloots]

Thanks, Mary and Yves.

Certainly more than I anticipated! Having seen the various
mentions/instances of differing sizes for so long I guess the default choice
(whatever it might have been) has always been used. What initially threw me
was the same selection option seen in Virtual Painter, where I'm still
confused as to what exact size 'Nametag' and 'Postcard' represent; to make
the matter even more frustrating is its' Help file shows no reference to it
at all.

Gracias, again


I don't know what you found with google but this site has everything about
paper size:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
It also has a conversion table from millimeters to inches for all the
sizes.

On numerous apps I've seen several choices for re-sizing an image: A4, B4,
Nametag, Postcard, etc....After doing a Google search it was revealed that
they're all variants of a North American ISO standard. While knowing
enough not to expect any good results blowing a 640 X 480 file to, let's
say a
4 X 6 print, where would an intermediate image buff like myself go to get a
red-hen, plain English explanation on what the other choices do and mean?

 

[Mary Sauer]

A name tag is usually 2 1/3" x 3 3/8", a postcard is 5.5" x 4.25"
Go to Avery and look over their templates.
www.avery.com