x * y
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- 74LEO0
X= the unknown and Y smells like fish tastes like chicken.
- Gnash0
width always come first
- ukit20
x = width
y = height
z = depthI've never seen it used differently
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- duckseason0
x(width) * y(height)
Annoys the shit outta me when people get this backwards.
- MrT0
There is no confusion between x and y axes and x-height, you just didn't listen properly at school.
- dbloc0
they are both chromosomes
- omg0
what happened to the client is always right?
- Mr_Right0
Dear algebra, please stop asking us to find your X. She's never coming back and don't ask Y.
- Jimbo820
I was always taught...
x is a cross
Simple.
- 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....
- 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.
- 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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- deathboy0
outdoor they usually run height dimension first...
- Amicus0
Width then height people. Make it the legal standard and there will be world peace - and less silly corrections.