Transitional Paper Sizes

All Transitional paper sizes, formats, information and dimension in mm, cm, m, inches, points, picas and pixels. The Transitional category has a total of 22 paper sizes.



Information

There are two series that are part of the Transitional paper size formats, the PA Series and the F Series. While the PA Series is still used today, especially PA4 (or L4), in 1975 the PA Series was rejected by the committee of the ISO216 standard when they proposed PA Series to be part of this standard. This was decided by the committee with the reason that the number of standardised paper formats should be kept to a minimum. The height of this series is that of the Canadian P4 (210mm x 280mm) and width of the ISO standard A4 (210mm x 297mm). The PA4 for example is a very good solution as the format of the presentation slides and it is used by many international magazines because it can easily be printed on equipment designed for US Letter or A4 size. When in landscape orientation, the PA4 has a 4:3 aspect ratio and it is actually more of a page format than a paper size. A common paper size used in Southeast Asia is the non-standard F4 which the shorter side is 210mm (the same as the ISO A4) and the longer side is 330mm (the same as the British Foolscap). Foolscap or Folio are some common terms used for the F4 size.


Format Width x Height (mm) Width x Height (inch) Width x Height (px)
F0 841 x 1321 33.1 x 52 9933 x 15602
PA0 840 x 1120 33.1 x 44.1 9921 x 13228
F1 660 x 841 26 x 33.1 7795 x 9933
PA1 560 x 840 22 x 33.1 6614 x 9921
F2 420 x 660 16.5 x 26 4961 x 7795
PA2 420 x 560 16.5 x 22 4961 x 6614
F3 330 x 420 13 x 16.5 3898 x 4961
PA3 280 x 420 11 x 16.5 3307 x 4961
F4 210 x 330 8.3 x 13 2480 x 3898
PA4 210 x 280 8.3 x 11 2480 x 3307
F5 165 x 210 6.5 x 8.3 1949 x 2480
PA5 140 x 210 5.5 x 8.3 1654 x 2480
F6 105 x 165 4.1 x 6.5 1240 x 1949
PA6 105 x 140 4.1 x 5.5 1240 x 1654
F7 82 x 105 3.2 x 4.1 969 x 1240
PA7 70 x 105 2.8 x 4.1 827 x 1240
F8 52 x 82 2 x 3.2 614 x 969
PA8 52 x 70 2 x 2.8 614 x 827
F9 41 x 52 1.6 x 2 484 x 614
PA9 35 x 52 1.4 x 2 413 x 614
F10 26 x 41 1 x 1.6 307 x 484
PA10 26 x 35 1 x 1.4 307 x 413