I think this is explained by bug 1865203. I think the STR here result in us printing A4-sized content onto a US-Letter-sized page, and then printing that US-Letter-sized page onto an A4 sheet of paper. In particular: - Google Docs is generating A4-sized *content* (like a canvas that's roughly the size of an A4 page) - ... and then they're putting it on a US-letter-sized CSS page (`@page { size:8.5in 11in [...]`), which results in some distortion to fit. This is a Google Docs bug, I think; I reached out to some GDocs folks and I'm waiting to hear back about it. - ... and then if the user chooses to print that to an A4-sized page, then it's still not really right, because we're still printing a US Letter sized page (from the @page definition).
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I think this is explained by bug 1865203. I think the STR here result in us printing A4-sized content onto a US-Letter-sized page, and then printing that US-Letter-sized page onto an A4 sheet of paper. In particular: - Google Docs is generating A4-sized *content* (like a canvas that's roughly the size of an A4 page) - ... and then they're putting it on a US-letter-sized CSS page (`@page { size:8.5in 11in [...]`), which results in some distortion to fit. (This is a Google Docs bug, I think; I reached out to some GDocs folks and I'm waiting to hear back about it.) - ... and then if the user chooses to print that to an A4-sized page, then it's still not really right, because we're still printing a US Letter sized page (from the @page definition).
I think this is explained by bug 1865203. I think the STR here result in us printing A4-sized content onto a US-Letter-sized page, and then printing that US-Letter-sized page onto an A4 sheet of paper. In particular: - Google Docs is generating A4-sized *content* (like a canvas that's roughly the size of an A4 page) - ... and then they're putting it on a US-letter-sized CSS page (`@page { size:8.5in 11in [...]`), which results in some distortion to fit. (This is a Google Docs bug, I think; I reached out to some GDocs folks and I'm waiting to hear back about it.) - ... and then if the user chooses to print that to an A4-sized page (as jwatt did in comment 0 STR, probably using A4-page-size-defaults from his printer or from his previous settings), then it's still not really right, because we're still printing a US Letter sized page (from the @page definition) and we're just smooshing it to fit his printer's A4-sized sheets of paper.
I think this is explained by bug 1865203. I think the STR here result in us printing an A4-sized `<canvas>` onto a US-Letter-sized page, and then printing that US-Letter-sized page onto an A4 sheet of paper. In particular: - Google Docs is generating A4-sized *content* (like a canvas that's roughly the size of an A4 page) - ... and then they're putting it on a US-letter-sized CSS page (`@page { size:8.5in 11in [...]`), which results in some distortion to fit. (This is a Google Docs bug, I think; I reached out to some GDocs folks and I'm waiting to hear back about it.) - ... and then if the user chooses to print that to an A4-sized page (as jwatt did in comment 0 STR, probably using A4-page-size-defaults from his printer or from his previous settings), then it's still not really right, because we're still printing a US Letter sized page (from the @page definition) and we're just smooshing it to fit his printer's A4-sized sheets of paper.