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- animatedgif0
x = width
y = height
z = depthand always specify Width * Height
Any other way is objectively wrong. If someone is running round doing this shit they're clearly just stupid and too stubborn to admit it.
- sine0
- Amicus0
Width then height people. Make it the legal standard and there will be world peace - and less silly corrections.
- deathboy0
outdoor they usually run height dimension first...
- monNom0
I used to know an old-school printer guy who talked about everything in picas, and referred to dimensions as lines of type/picas interchangeably. So, if your printer is used to laying out publications based on that unit, they may well think in terms of everything being equal to the height of a line of type rather than the width of the page... it might follow then that you specify the height first to establish the geometry of the page... just a thought.
- not sure if that was coherent... think baseline gridmonNom
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- i_monk0
width * height, always
Unless you're working in the marketing department, where you can switch the order whenever you want and then get upset when the numbers are misread.
- Amicus0
x is width and y is height.
I can't think of any software that asks for height before width. It makes sense as we read left to right before scanning down — the japanese might be different in this respect.
Detritus, your clients are either bonkers or japanese....
- Jimbo820
I was always taught...
x is a cross
Simple.
- Mr_Right0
Dear algebra, please stop asking us to find your X. She's never coming back and don't ask Y.
- omg0
what happened to the client is always right?
- dbloc0
they are both chromosomes
- MrT0
There is no confusion between x and y axes and x-height, you just didn't listen properly at school.
- duckseason0
x(width) * y(height)
Annoys the shit outta me when people get this backwards.
- Gnash0
^ They are doing it wrong. I've never used a print shot, or dealt with a magazine, that put Height before Width.The norm is Width always goes first.
- detritus0
Ok, reason for this is — I have a client who always puts the height first, reason being that the print shops and magazines they deal with refer to dimensions this way too.
I'm thinking about starting one of those stupid one-idea page websites campaigning for normalisation, bringing these obstinate fools into the right century. Something I can send on to these people. Probably savaging my client relationship in the process, but what the hey. This is a higher calling.
This thread is a clarion call, of sorts.
- printer paper is 8.5 x 11, width firstsarahfailin
- No it's not - printer paper is 210x297mm! ;)detritus
- boobs0
x always seems like width, until they start talking about type, and then they talk about "x height."
So, there's always possibilities for confusion in this language of ours.
- ukit20
x = width
y = height
z = depthI've never seen it used differently