DIN is the German standards body that actually 'invented' the A, B and C paper standards in 1922, but ISO copied them. DIN A4 is thus exactly the same as ISO A4, DIN A3 is the same as ISO A3, etc. I do wonder why XSane uses DIN is the name as it might confuse a few people and doesn't add anything. Might be that a person from Germany made that bit of the interface, whenever I'm there the word DIN is still added on most packs of paper too, probably just be a little national pride at work.
On 2008-06-27, at 07:26, eagleskycloud wrote: > > Yes my XSane alse has DIN A3 , DIN A4 and so on,and both in portrait > and landscape. But is DIN A3 same to A3? Is DIN A4 same to A4? > Is DIN A5 same to A5? > > DIN is standard of Germany.Is the size of DIN A3 is 297mm x > 420mm? Is the size of DIN A4 is 210mm x 297mm? > > > > 2008/6/27 m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>: > On 6/26/08, eagleskycloud <eagleskycloud at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I want to accurately scan A4 paper(210mmx297mm),but there is not > > A4(210mmx297mm) item in preset area drop down box in preview > window of > > XSane. > > my version of Xsane (.95) has DIN A3, A4, and A5, both in portrait and > landscape. > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org
