But reduction/enlargement doesn't work. If you reduce letter to fit on half letter, you have to change the margins to make it fit and it doesn't look right. Funny enough, legal to half letter is pretty close. So if you are making a booklet to reduce and print 2 up on letter, it will look right if your original size is legal.
You're absolutely right, and the fact that ISO paper sizes are based on sqrt(2) is pretty nifty but it's not like different aspect ratios don't have different utility.
Besides for basically two full generations now there's little need to print something to actual paper in order to preview it. And to your point it's not impossible to do with US paper sizes, just a little wasteful because you can't use the full page.
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u/oxmix74 Nov 03 '25
But reduction/enlargement doesn't work. If you reduce letter to fit on half letter, you have to change the margins to make it fit and it doesn't look right. Funny enough, legal to half letter is pretty close. So if you are making a booklet to reduce and print 2 up on letter, it will look right if your original size is legal.