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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fid, post: 4307504, member: 7724&quot;]old European measures for book printers.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size</a></p><p>only useful when the sheets used were of the same size; a quarto is double the size of an octavo, but only when the original sheets were of the same size.</p><p>today&#039;s general rules of size go back to the Prussian regulations (Preussische Instruktionen, 1880s)) that introduced a given size of sheet 33*42 centimeters. most probably to stop the English and US nonsense of inventing a size for every printing machine of every machine company.</p><p>today&#039;s list for normal use:</p><p>1 Plano <i>plain meaning the whole sheet</i></p><p>1/4 Quarto <i>quarto</i> </p><p>1/8 Octavo <i>octavo</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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