Not in my case- coming from the US, I thought I was making everything SO easy by using standard Letter size paper for my portfolio. I even formatted it down from 11"x17" size to make it easier to email and print. Once I got here I went to print it and, hm... what? Different size paper?
On Sunday night I was trying to print my resume which, now having learned, I had reformatted to A4 size. But the printing was still not working, cutting off bits and pieces of the document. I even tried it from one of the MBAs computers (she must have thought I was nuts and I felt horrible for bothering her) and it still came out funny. A little searching on my mac and I found a setting under "printers" where you set the default page size. Mine was obviously set to "letter" and I changed it to A4, the magic trick.
I realized that anybody coming from N. America will have issues trying to print their own documents on the printers here. If you don't change the standard settings, everything will come out wrong or too small. Funny though, as none of the MBAs seem to care about formatting or margins or "fit to page" or anything I said in this post. But I care, a lot!
What matters is that I need to reformat my portfolio yet again and now there is one more thing to procrastinate. :)
www.a4first.com !!
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