Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:40:26 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did 
> spake, saying:
> 
>> I'm just sitting here looking over the plans for our new building at 
>> work. It looks roughly like a tangled maze of lines, encrusted with text.
>>
>> Some of the text is in fact almost unreadable because it's so tiny. 
>> Even when printed out, I can bearly read it. I had a look at the PDF 
>> file, and it says the document dimensions are "23.39 x 33.11 inches". 
>> A quick trip to Google tells me that's 594.106 x 840.994 mm. (Wow, 
>> that sounds pretty big!) A quick check on Wikipedia tells me that's 
>> exactly A1. (!!)
>>
>> So, where the plan says "1:50 scale", it's really "1:400" when printed 
>> on A4 instead of A1.
> 
> Taking into account that the software may have 'fixed' it to print 
> within your printer margins.

True...

Perhaps that's why part of the building is missing? Or maybe it's just 
that this particular drawing only includes that part, I'm not sure.

>> It's certainly interesting anyway...
> 
> Looking at building plans is always fun.

I'm glad someone else thinks so.

I have no idea what half the stuff means, but I'm nosey anyway! ;-)

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