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What changed and when, in plain language. Corrections are listed alongside features — if we fixed a wrong number, it says so here.

By Michael SavvidisPublished 11 July 2026, reviewed 18 October 2026
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v1.96.02026-10-18

  • New: the bingo card generator. Type your own words — a baby shower, a classroom, a holiday party — or choose 1–75 or 1–90 numbers, and print every card different: 3 × 3, 4 × 4 or 5 × 5 grids with an optional free centre, 1, 2 or 4 cards to a page on A4 or US Letter, and a caller’s sheet to tick off. The set number on each card prints the same set again; a shared link carries the settings, never the words.
  • Word templates for seven label sheets: Avery 5160, 5161, 5163, 5164, 5167 and 5395, and the A4 21-label sheet. Each .docx is a table with a cell on every label, measured from the same sheet layout as the label generator, ready to type into and print at 100%. They are on the label generator and on the address, name badge and 30-labels pages.
  • The poster splitter in Spanish, at /es/tools/poster-split-calculator: the whole tool, its errors and its questions, written in Spanish for Spain and Latin America alike, with A4, Carta, A3 and Tabloide sheets and 50 × 70 and 70 × 100 cm posters. The English, Japanese and Spanish pages all point to each other.
  • The seasonal picks on the home page add the bingo cards and the photo calendar.

v1.95.02026-10-18

  • The site now says who makes it: Michael Savvidis, in Greece. Guides and reference pages are signed with his name, and the About and Contact pages say so.
  • Four pages that repeated a stronger page were folded into it, and their old addresses now lead there: the business-card safe area and bleed pages into the safe area and bleed guides (with the card sizes for the EU, US and Japan), the 11 × 17 poster page into Tabloid vs 11 × 17, and How templates are created into the About page.

v1.94.02026-10-18

  • New: the photo calendar maker. Choose one photo for the whole year or a photo for each month, and print a calendar with the photo above each month, on A4 or US Letter, portrait or landscape, with a cover that names the year. Any first month, the public holidays of five countries, and English, French or German.
  • The photos never leave your device: the preview shows them from the files you chose, the PDF is made in your browser with each photo cut to its frame at print resolution, and a shared link carries only the settings.

v1.93.02026-10-18

  • The printable calendar can mark public holidays: the US federal holidays with their observed days, the ten general holidays of the Canada Labour Code, the bank holidays of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland with their substitute days, the holidays every Australian state shares, and the nine kept in every German state. Each is named in its day, and on the year page the date is ringed and the holidays are listed underneath.
  • The calendar prints in English, French or German: months, days, week numbers, and the to-do list and notes of the planner pages. With Canada’s holidays the names can be in English or French, with Germany’s in German or English.
  • Six ready-made 2027 calendars on one page with holidays: the US and Canada on Letter, the UK, Australia and Germany on A4, and Canada in French and Germany in German.

v1.92.02026-10-18

  • The C5 envelope page answers whether a C5 envelope is the same as A5: A5 is the sheet, C5 the envelope that holds it flat, with the margin it leaves and the envelope to use when the A5 is folded in half.

v1.91.02026-10-18

  • The printable calendar makes planner pages. A week per page gives every week of the months you choose its own sheet, with its dates and ISO week number: seven rows of writing lines in portrait, seven columns in landscape. A day per page gives every day its own sheet, with its week and day of the year, a to-do list and lines for notes.
  • Tick Hours for a schedule from 7 am to 9 pm with a line at each half hour: the week as seven columns over the hours, or the day as an hourly column beside the to-do list. The hours read 07:00 or 7 am, starting from what is usual where you are.
  • Planner pages come in the same A4, Letter, A5 and half-letter sizes as the calendar, with the binding margin for a ring binder, and a shared link keeps the layout and the hours.

v1.90.02026-10-18

  • New: the raffle ticket generator. Numbered tickets with a stub, 8 to 16 to an A4 or Letter sheet, from any first number up to 1,000 tickets, with the event, the date and the price on each. The numbers can run in order down each pile once the sheets are cut, and the stub has lines for the buyer’s name and phone.
  • New: the place card generator. Paste a guest list and print a folded place card or tent card for every name, set as large as fits and readable from both sides of the table — 3.5 × 2 in, A7, 4 × 3 in, 5.5 × 4.25 in or your own size, on A4 or Letter. Names with accents, Greek or Cyrillic letters print as typed.
  • Both are listed with the other tools, and place cards join calendars, envelopes and address labels among the seasonal picks on the home and tools pages.

v1.89.02026-10-18

  • Lined paper gets its own name on the generator that has made it since September: the page is now the lined and graph paper generator, and six sheets are ready to print without setting anything — college ruled and wide ruled paper for US Letter, 5 mm graph paper for A4, ¼ in graph paper for Letter, and Cornell notes paper for A4 and Letter.
  • Every tool page says when its content last changed — the same date the sitemap gives search engines and never the date of a rebuild — and the sitemap now lists each page’s date before its picture, the order the sitemap standard asks for.
  • Links that arrive slightly wrong now lead where they meant to: a tool or size named without its section, a guide with an underscore or a stray character in its address, the site’s domain pasted into the path, or a ready-made PDF asked for by a name close to its own.
  • The summary of the site for AI assistants (llms.txt) lists the ready-made PDFs by their real names and gives three examples of links that open a tool already set up. The privacy policy no longer mentions a contact form the site has never had.

v1.87.12026-10-09

  • A security fix. When a mistyped address is sent on to the page it was meant to be, an address that began with a backslash or a double slash could be sent to another website instead. Such addresses now stay on PrintReadyKit: they reach the right page when there is one, and the page-not-found page when there is not.

v1.87.02026-10-05

  • How many fit on a sheet takes a sheet of any size: choose "Custom sheet size…" and enter a 12 × 18 in press sheet, a 64 × 90 cm sheet, a 22 × 28 in cartolina or a table top, from 5 cm to 2 m a side. A new answer works out A4 on those sheets, and the 4 × 6 in photo preset now says 4R, the name it goes by across much of Asia.
  • New answers where people were already asking: which Avery numbers share the 5160 layout and why labels drift off the die cuts; which envelope a holiday card needs; measuring your pupillary distance with the printable ruler; printing a picture on four A4 sheets or an A3 on two; where Windows, Mac and printer makers hide their own test page; printing a calendar straight from the page, and a year that starts in April.
  • The actual-size guide covers Canva, Google Docs and Photoshop, and asks you to measure the result with the one-page calibration test right where you have just changed the setting. The flyer and poster, printing guide and business card indexes say how to print at home and at a print shop, and the guides can be found by what went wrong.
  • The tools page no longer puts a heading inside an inline element, the one HTML validation error on the site, and the framework is updated to the latest 15.5 release.

v1.86.02026-09-30

  • The poster splitter can print a PDF at its own size: load the PDF and choose "Same size as the PDF page, 100%", and it is tiled 1:1 across A4 or Letter sheets — for a sewing pattern or a drawing that has to come out exactly as drawn. A PDF page with a custom unit size is now tiled as an image, as a rotated page already was, because the vector method would have drawn it at the wrong scale.
  • The A0, A1, A2, Tabloid, 11 × 17 and A3 pages said how many sheets a poster takes by area — 16 A4 for A0, two Letters for Tabloid. A home printer cannot print to the edge and each join needs an overlap, so the real count is higher; they now give the count the poster splitter works out (21 A4 sheets for A0 at a 5 mm margin and 10 mm overlap). The tool is now called the poster splitter everywhere, as its page title already did, and the claim about Acrobat Reader’s greyed-out Poster option on a Mac is worded as the reported problem it is.
  • The 30-labels-per-sheet page opens the label generator ready for what you are doing: an address list with one address per label, or the same return address on every label. It no longer says the generator only makes an SVG, and its list instructions match how pasting works now.

v1.85.02026-09-29

  • The whole of next year on one page, ready to print: a 2027 calendar for A4 (weeks from Monday, with ISO week numbers) and for US Letter (weeks from Sunday), linked at the top of the printable calendar. They are drawn by the calendar tool itself.
  • The sitemap now gives each page the date its content last changed, taken from what the page actually shows, so search engines can tell which pages are worth reading again.
  • The actual-size and Fit to page guides point to the one guide that compares Fit to printable area, Fit to paper and Actual size, instead of each explaining part of it.

v1.84.02026-09-28

  • Ready-made architect scale rulers for US Letter — 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2" and 1" = 1'-0", one per page with a check line — beside the metric set on the ruler and scale ruler pages. Every ready-made PDF now carries its title, which is what a search result shows for a PDF.
  • The Fit to printable area guide corrected an answer: Chrome and Edge treat Fit to paper and Fit to printable area as two different settings (the first scales to the edge of the sheet, the second to the part the printer can reach), not two names for one. The Chrome and Edge section adds the known Edge problem where Fit to printable area shows as selected but is not applied, and Microsoft's workaround.
  • The label template pages' button now says what it does — fill the sheet in the label generator, which gives a PDF or an SVG — instead of "Generate the SVG sheet".

v1.83.02026-09-28

  • Passport photo maker: a clear note that the issuing authority, not this site, decides whether a photo is accepted, with a link to the official requirements for the document you chose and a box to tick before downloading. A new section and FAQ say the same in full, and the terms of use gained a section on passport, visa and ID photos.

v1.82.02026-09-28

  • New tool: a passport photo maker. Choose the country, pick a photo and click the top of the head and the chin; it crops and scales the photo so the head is the height that country asks for — US 2 × 2 in, UK and EU 35 × 45 mm, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, China 33 × 48 mm and India — and gives you a 4 × 6 in or 10 × 15 cm print for a photo kiosk, a PDF for A4 or Letter, or the single photo. The photo never leaves your browser. The sizes come from each government’s own page, linked on the tool, and it says which countries no longer take a home-printed photo.
  • Ready-made PDFs you can download in one click, without setting anything up: a 25 cm ruler for A4 and a 9 in ruler for Letter (centimetres and inches), a set of 1:20, 1:50, 1:100 and 1:200 scale rulers, a blank 30-per-sheet label template in the Avery 5160 layout, and a DL envelope template. They are drawn by the same code as the tools.
  • Fit to page vs actual size: where Fit to printable area is in Chrome and Edge, why the browser sometimes picks it for you, and what to check when it seems to do nothing.

v1.81.02026-09-28

  • How many fit on a sheet answers three questions people ask it by name: how many squares fit on A4 (fifteen of 5 cm, fifty-four of 3 cm), how many stickers fit on a sheet, and how many flash cards fit when you laminate them and need a sealed edge around each. Every number is worked out by the calculator itself. There is also a 5 × 5 cm square in the item list.

v1.80.02026-09-27

  • Label and business card PDFs print names in any Latin, Greek or Cyrillic script as typed. The PDF font covered only Western European letters, so “Łódź” printed as “Aódz” and Greek or Russian names as symbols, while the preview showed them correctly. Characters no font here covers — Chinese, Japanese, emoji — are now named on the page before you download, instead of printing wrong.
  • Label text that is too long for the label is wrapped onto more lines instead of running into the next label and off the sheet, and entries of more than eight lines keep every line. Business card lines shrink to fit the safe area; a long email address used to run past the trim. Anything that still cannot fit is cut with “…” and the page says so.
  • How many fit on a sheet: for round items, “paper used” now counts the circles rather than the squares around them (35 circles of 40 mm on A4 use 71% of the sheet, not 90%). Shared links for this tool and for the scale ruler are checked the way typed values are, so a damaged link can no longer freeze the page.

v1.79.02026-09-27

  • Tools and size pages now carry a picture of what they make: the 20 cm ruler, the graph paper, the address label sheet, the business card, the envelope, the calendar, the protractor, the ring sizer, the test and calibration sheets, a poster split into sheets — and every paper size and comparison drawn to scale with its dimensions, plus the A-series chart. Each is drawn by the same code as the tool, so it shows what you will get, and it is the picture shared when a page is posted or pinned.

v1.78.02026-09-27

  • Behind the scenes, from a full check of the live site: browsers are told to use HTTPS for every visit (HSTS), the article markup on guides and reference pages names an image as Google recommends, and the site logo in the markup is a PNG. Every page, every internal link and every download was also checked in Safari’s engine, on an iPhone, and in Firefox.

v1.77.02026-09-27

  • The homepage and the tools page list the nineteen tools by what you want to do — make something to print, measure and check, look up and convert — each with a small drawing of what it does, most used first. The homepage opens with the four tools most people come for, and on a phone the list is a quarter shorter.
  • On a wide screen the preview of the label sheet, business card, graph paper, ruler and the other generators stays in view while you scroll through their settings. The label generator shows its preset sheets as an even grid.
  • The footer lists the tools in two columns, and the empty band above the related links on every tool page is gone.

v1.76.02026-09-27

  • New tool: an online ruler that is actual size on your screen. A browser draws an "inch" as 96 pixels on every screen, so an on-screen ruler is usually wrong — about 85% of real size on a common laptop. Hold a bank card against the screen and match a box to it, or enter the screen size, and the ruler becomes life size in centimetres, inches or both. Tap it to read a length, turn it upright for the long side of a phone, and keep the calibration in a link. Browser zoom in Chrome, Edge and Firefox is allowed for.
  • The same page reads a ring size on screen: lay a ring on the circle and step the size until it fits, in US, UK, European and Japanese sizes, worked out like the printable ring sizer.
  • Behind the scenes: the data files Next.js loads between pages now tell search engines not to index them; they were being fetched by Bing and AI crawlers as if they were pages.

v1.75.02026-09-27

  • The poster splitter keeps a PDF as vector. Each sheet is cut from your original page and clipped to its tile instead of being turned into a picture, so text and lines stay sharp at any poster size, the scale is exact and the file stays small — right for sewing patterns, plans and designs exported from Canva or Illustrator. Images, and rotated PDF pages, are still tiled as high-resolution images; the cut marks and guides are drawn from one list for both.
  • The graph paper generator prints in landscape, in grey, blue, green or black lines, light, regular or bold, and puts up to 50 identical pages in one PDF. The preview and the PDF take their colours from one palette, which they used to keep separately.
  • For the season: the label generator explains return and recipient address labels for holiday cards, and the envelope template generator makes a gift card envelope, with its size worked out by the tool.

v1.74.02026-09-27

  • The label sheet generator prints on a partly used sheet: say how many labels are already gone and the text starts on the next one. A printer offset moves the whole print right or down by the distance a printer feeds labels off, for the common case where every label is off by the same amount. It also answers how to make Avery 5160 labels from Google Docs or Sheets, which have no label feature of their own, and from Mac Contacts.
  • The calibration test names the cause of a reading: a square that measures 94.1 mm is an A4 document fitted to Letter paper, 97.3 mm a Letter document fitted to A4, with the fix for each. The percentages are worked out from the paper sizes.
  • The DPI calculator lists the pixels a print needs at 300 and 150 DPI, from a 4 × 6 in photo to A3; the paper weight converter lists the weights paper is sold in, in pounds and gsm, bond, text and cover.
  • The poster splitter said Acrobat Reader can print a poster. On a Mac, free Reader shows the Poster option greyed out, reported since macOS Sonoma and still unfixed; the page now says so and answers the question in those words. The US Letter and Legal pages explain short bond and long bond paper — the Philippine names for 8.5 × 11 in and 8.5 × 13 in — and how long bond differs from US Legal.

v1.73.02026-09-27

  • The business card template generator opens on the card size used where you are — 3.5 × 2 in in the US and Canada, 91 × 55 mm in Japan, 85 × 55 mm in the UK and elsewhere — instead of the US size for everyone. A shared link keeps the size it names.

v1.72.02026-09-27

  • Visitors from the US and Canada now start on US Letter and inches in every tool that has a paper or unit setting — the poster splitter (a 24 × 36 in poster on Letter sheets), the label sheet generator (the Avery 5160 layout), the sheet layout calculator (a US business card), graph paper (¼ in squares), the ruler (8 in, which fits on Letter), the protractor, the calibration and printer test sheets, the business card and envelope templates, the DPI calculator, the scale converter (1/4" = 1'-0") and the paper size converter. Until now only the calendar and the ring sizer did this, and everyone else began on A4 and millimetres. Mexico and the Philippines start on Letter in millimetres. The setting comes from the browser’s language and is not stored or sent; a shared link keeps its own paper and unit, and both can still be changed at any time.
  • The label sheet generator has the US name tag sheet: eight 2⅓ × 3⅜ in tags on Letter, the layout of Avery 5395, checked against two independent label template databases. The name badge page links to it.

v1.71.02026-09-27

  • Every tool was worked through as a first-time visitor on a phone, and this release fixes what that found. The calibration sheet’s 100 mm square measured 100.3 mm from outer edge to outer edge, because a line is drawn centred on its path; it now measures exactly 100 mm the way a ruler is read, and the 50 mm and 2 inch lines measure true from the outside of one end tick to the outside of the other.
  • The poster splitter prints a 50 mm line (2 in on Letter and Tabloid) on the first sheet, in the strip the next sheet covers, so the first page can be checked with a ruler before the rest are printed and the line never shows on the finished poster. Each sheet is labelled by row and column in words; the old label gave the grid as rows × columns under a page that gives it as columns × rows.
  • Print preview asks for the right paper: a Letter page went to the printer as A3, and a ruler strip went on an A-size sheet even in the US. A page drawn at a standard size now prints on that size, and a smaller drawing goes on Letter or Tabloid in the US, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, A4 or A3 elsewhere. The calendar, the ring sizer and print preview now share one list of where Letter is used, and a link to the calendar carrying a campaign tag no longer counts as a shared setup that switches its Letter and Sunday defaults off.
  • The envelope template generator no longer offers a PDF, SVG or print of a template that runs off the chosen sheet; it says which sheet it needs. The scale converter’s Find the scale compares a drawing in feet or inches with architectural and engineer scales, says how much a drawing was reduced as a plain percentage and what to reprint it at, and hides the scale bar, which belonged to a scale that mode does not use. The paper weight converter’s heading read "24 lb" for "24,5"; a 6.5 in protractor fits on Letter again.
  • The label sheet generator takes rows pasted from a spreadsheet — each row one label, its cells on separate lines, including cells that contain line breaks. Its page menu named the wrong sheet for some layouts — A3 for the Avery 5160 layout on Letter — and now names the sheet in use, or the custom size. Clicking into a measurement and out again without typing rounded it: Avery 5160’s 66.675 mm labels became 66.7 mm. Every length field now keeps the value until something is typed.
  • Smaller corrections: the sheet layout calculator’s circles set both dimensions and travel in a shared link; the DPI calculator uses the same unit control as the other tools; engineer scale rulers are titled as engineer scales; the heavy lines of graph paper with axes are counted from the axes; the scale ruler guide opens the ruler already set to any scale in its tables.

v1.70.02026-09-26

  • The Japanese poster splitter explains printing from a smartphone: iPhone and Android print screens have no scale setting, a poster printed slightly smaller still joins up, and how to get the exact size when it matters.
  • The sheet layout calculator answers how many 5 × 7 photos, 3 × 5 index cards and playing cards fit on A4 and on Letter, including the nine-card sheet and the settings it needs. Every number in those answers, and in the business card answer, is worked out by the calculator itself when the site is built.
  • The graph paper guide links straight to engineering paper, a coordinate plane, Cornell notes, handwriting paper and music staff paper, each opening the generator already set up, and the scale ruler page points to the new scale bar. The calibration test and the ring sizer point to what to do when a phone has no Actual size setting, and the printable calendar names the years people print it for.

v1.69.02026-09-26

  • The graph paper generator draws Cornell notes, handwriting paper and music staff paper. Cornell notes follow the layout Cornell University’s Learning Strategies Center gives — a 2½ in cue column and a 2 in summary area — with any line ruling; handwriting paper has a dashed midline, in rows of 1 in, ⅝ in, ½ in or 15 mm; staff paper takes as many five-line staves per page as you ask for, or as many as fit. Square and dot grids can carry numbered x and y axes — a coordinate plane in four quadrants or one — and have presets for engineering paper (5 squares to the inch), quad ruled, millimetre and 5 mm grids. The new styles are drawn from one list of lines for the preview and the PDF.
  • The printable ruler can carry centimetres along the top edge and inches along the bottom of one strip. Its graduations are now worked out once for the preview and the PDF, which each had their own copy. A shared link to a ruler marked only every 5 mm reopened with every millimetre marked; it now keeps the setting.
  • The scale converter draws a scale bar for the chosen scale — a round real length such as 5 m at 1:50 or 10 ft at 1/4" = 1'-0", 5 to 12.5 cm long on paper — to add to a drawing as an SVG or print as a PDF. A scale bar stays right when a plan is printed at another size; the written ratio does not.
  • The poster splitter says which everyday apps can print a poster across several sheets by themselves: Acrobat can; Word and PowerPoint only through a printer driver that adds it; Mac Preview and Canva cannot.

v1.68.02026-09-26

  • The label sheet generator treated a pasted column of names as one entry — every name on the first label — because it only separated entries at blank lines, while the hint beside the box suggested pasting a spreadsheet column. A list with no blank lines now gives one label per line; blank lines still separate entries that take several lines, such as addresses. The name badge page no longer sends people to a word processor to merge the names in.
  • Printing from an iPhone, iPad or Android phone has its own section in the actual-size guide. Neither system has a scaling setting in its print options, so the guide explains how to check the print and what to do when it comes out small. The ruler and the poster splitter point to it.
  • The sheet layout calculator has presets for 5 × 7 in photos, 3 × 5 in index and flash cards, and 2.5 × 3.5 in playing and trading cards. Name badge pages also say name tag, which is what many people call them.
  • Mistyped and mangled links to the site — a tool address without /tools/, a link copied with typographic hyphens, or one with text stuck to the end — now lead to the page they meant instead of "Page not found". The not-found page also has a title of its own.

v1.67.02026-09-26

  • The poster splitter prints on A3 and Tabloid (11 × 17 in) as well as A4 and US Letter, for printers that take bigger sheets: half as many pages to trim and tape. With Letter chosen, the line above the build button said "12 US pages"; it now says "12 Letter pages".
  • The graph paper preview now shows the grid exactly where the PDF prints it. The two worked the grid out separately: the preview started at the 10 mm margin and drew to whatever was left, the PDF centred a whole number of squares, so at 5 mm the preview’s rows sat a millimetre higher than the printed ones on A4, and 2.2 mm higher and 0.45 mm to the left on Letter. The isometric preview also ran to the edge of the page, where a printer cannot reach, while the PDF kept the margin. Both now draw from one calculation, and a test compares every line and dot of the two.

v1.66.02026-09-26

  • Every reviewed reference page — paper sizes, comparisons, envelopes, labels, cards, flyers and the guides — has a "Cite this page" link beside its review date, with the page ready to paste as an APA or MLA reference or as an HTML link. The date cited is the review date the page shows.

v1.65.02026-09-26

  • The poster splitter in Japanese, at /ja/tools/poster-split-calculator: the whole tool, its errors and its questions, written in Japanese rather than machine-translated. It offers the JIS B sizes Japanese posters use (B1, B2, B3), prints the tiles on A4, A3 or B4, and explains how to print them at a convenience-store copier — Seven-Eleven’s netprint takes PDFs up to 10 MB and prints a standard-size page at 100%. The English and Japanese pages point to each other, so search engines show each language the right one.
  • After building the tiled PDF, the poster splitter says how large the file is, which decides whether an upload-based print service will take it.

v1.64.02026-09-26

  • New tool: printable protractor. The classic 180° half circle with an outer and an inner scale, or a full 360° circle numbered like a maths protractor or like a compass, marked every degree, at any diameter that fits A4 or Letter. The page has a square to check it by: a protractor printed a little small still reads angles correctly, as long as the printer did not stretch the page more one way than the other — equal sides prove it did not.
  • New tool: printable ring sizer. Circles for every size to lay a ring on and a strip to wrap round a finger, in US, UK, European or Japanese sizes, with a chart that converts between the four. Each system is worked out from its own definition rather than copied from another chart. A box the size of a bank card is printed on the same page, because a page printed at 97% — the usual Fit to page shrink — makes every size read about two thirds of a US size too large, too little to see without it.
  • The printable ruler, the scale ruler guide, the scale converter, the calibration test, the printer test page and the two new tools now link to one another in a single "Measuring and scale tools" list, kept in one place so that none is left out.

v1.63.02026-09-26

  • New tool: printable calendar. Any month or year as a PDF — one month per page with room to write in each day, or twelve months on a single page from any starting month: January for the calendar year, September for a school year. A4, US Letter, or the A5 and half-letter planner sizes, portrait or landscape. Weeks start on Monday or Sunday, with ISO week numbers, shaded weekends, and an extra 15 mm margin on the left for a hole punch or at the top for hanging. It is blank on purpose: public holidays differ by country, and a calendar that marked the wrong ones would be worse than none.
  • Until January the home page and the tools page open with the three tools the season asks for: the calendar, the envelope template generator for holiday cards, and address labels printed from a pasted list.
  • The tools page’s search description said "twelve" tools long after there were more. It now takes the number from the tool list itself.

v1.62.02026-09-26

  • New tool: printer test page. One A4 or Letter PDF with each ink on its own and in pairs, tint ramps, a greyscale wedge in black ink only, line weights, fine line pairs, text from 4 to 12 pt and a 100 mm and 4 inch scale check. Round the edge are marks 1 to 10 mm from each side of the sheet: the lowest one that prints is your printer’s margin on that side, and the page turns the four readings into the margin to use in the sheet layout calculator and label sheets.
  • New tool: envelope template generator. Pick a standard envelope — C6, DL, C5, US A2, A6, A7, A9, #10 and the rest — enter your own size, or enter the card that has to go inside and get an envelope 3 mm larger all round. The PDF prints at true size with the cut line, the fold lines and the order to fold them, on the smallest sheet that holds it. It says plainly when that is A3 rather than A4: the flaps overlap on the back, so a template is about twice the envelope’s height.
  • New tool: scale converter. Drawing to real size and back at any metric scale, US architectural and engineer scales and common model scales, in metric and feet-and-inches together — or measure one known length and it works out what scale the drawing is at, and says when a drawing has been printed at the wrong size.
  • The US announcement envelopes A2, A6, A7 and A9 are now in the envelope finder and on the envelope sizes page. The DL, C5, C6 and US #10 pages link to a template for making one, naming the paper it fits on.

v1.61.02026-09-25

  • The graph paper generator makes lined paper: college ruled (9/32 in), wide ruled (11/32 in), narrow ruled (1/4 in) or 6, 7 and 8 mm, with an optional red margin line 1¼ in from the left and room at the top for a name and date. It prints as a PDF at exact spacing on A4, Letter, A5, B5 and the other sizes offered.
  • The label sheet generator has four more US Letter layouts — 20, 10, 6 and 80 labels per sheet — and each US preset now names the Avery sheets it matches: 5160 / 8160, 5161, 5163, 5164 and 5167. Until now the site refused to name them, which meant anyone searching for "Avery 5160 template" could not tell that the 30-per-sheet layout was exactly that. PrintReadyKit is not affiliated with Avery, and the pages say so.
  • Correction: the 30-per-sheet layout was stored in rounded millimetres (66.7, 4.8, 3.2) although the sheet is specified in inches; across three columns that is about 0.1 mm per label. It now uses the exact values, 2⅝ × 1 in with 3/16 in side margins and 1/8 in gaps, and its page shows each figure in inches with millimetres beside it. Every US preset is now checked at build time to add up to exactly 8½ × 11 in.
  • Correction: several number fields rewrote what you typed. Clearing the graph paper spacing snapped it to the minimum, so typing 0.25 inches gave 0.125025; on the DPI calculator, clearing the width and typing 12 gave 0.112; the pixel fields, the graph paper subdivisions and the poster splitter’s page picker did the same. They now use one shared field, built like the length inputs fixed in v1.59.0: it waits while you type and settles when you leave it. The paper weight converter’s sheet count moved to it as well, and the build fails if a number field is added any other way.
  • Correction: on the graph paper generator the spacing field had no accessible name, because it sat inside a label that named the first button instead. Its groups of buttons are now labelled groups.
  • The poster splitter explains how it differs from the Rasterbator and Block Posters, the two tools most people know by name: what each does to the picture, what it accepts and where your file goes.

v1.60.02026-09-25

  • On a phone the header had no link to the tools at all: "Open tools" only appears on wider screens, and the row of section links scrolled sideways with Flyers & posters, Graph paper and Guides hidden past the edge and nothing to say so. The row now starts with Tools, and fades out at the edge where more links wait.
  • The paper size converter now answers the question most people bring to it. Type a custom size and it says which standard size that is — or the nearest one and how far off — and the smallest A-series and US sheet it fits on. 229 × 162 mm is a C5 envelope; 900 × 610 mm is within 14.4 mm of ARCH D, the 24 × 36 inch poster; 1150 × 1150 mm is bigger than A0 or ANSI E, and it points you to the poster splitter.
  • The sheet layout calculator offers A3, A4, A5, A6 and A7 as items, so "how many A6 fit on A4" is one click. Its FAQ now answers that directly: four when cutting a sheet down, two once a home printer’s margin is kept. The counts come from the calculator itself, not from typed-in numbers.
  • Correction: the DL envelope page asked "What does DL stand for?" twice and answered it two ways. There is now one answer, and it gives the origin — the German "DIN lang", DIN long — before the English reading "Dimension Lengthwise". The build now stops if any page repeats a question.
  • The DPI guide answers "Is 150 DPI good enough for print?" as a question rather than under the heading "The 150 DPI exception", including what 150 DPI means for print size.
  • Links inside paragraphs are underlined. They were marked by colour alone, which is hard to see for many people and fell short of accessibility guidelines on 38 pages.
  • Wide tables that scroll sideways on a phone can now be scrolled with the keyboard, and screen readers announce them. The paper weight converter no longer makes the whole page scroll sideways on a phone, and it stops showing a single sheet’s weight twice with two different roundings. Every page now fits a 360-pixel phone screen without scrolling sideways; four paper size pages, the converter and the envelope finder did not.
  • A small label on the home page illustration was a shade too faint to read comfortably. It is darker now.
  • On every tool page the related links — and on the sheet layout calculator the whole guide below the tool — sat outside the page’s main content area, so "skip to main content" and reader modes left them out. They are inside it now.

v1.59.02026-09-25

  • Six tools now take lengths in millimetres, centimetres or inches. The sheet layout calculator, label sheet generator, business card template and poster splitter asked for millimetres only, so "how many 3.5 × 2 inch cards fit on 8.5 × 11" meant converting every number first. The ruler had an inch switch, but its length field ignored it and showed a six-inch ruler as 152. The paper size converter could show a size in inches but not accept one. All of them now use the same switch, and a shared link remembers which unit you were using. Links made before this still open exactly as they were.
  • Correction: clearing a length field replaced it at once with a number you had not typed — 1 mm on the sheet layout calculator, 0 mm on the label generator, 20 mm on the business card, 0 on the poster splitter’s margin, which quietly assumed a printer with no border at all. The label generator’s rows and columns did the same, so clearing Rows to type 5 gave 15. A field now waits while you type and only settles when you leave it, keeping the last valid value if it is empty. Typing 0.75 inches no longer turns into something else at the first zero.
  • Correction: a negative margin or overlap on the poster splitter produced "reduce one of them", which is the opposite of the fix. Both fields now stay within range.
  • The cut-guide PDF from the sheet layout calculator states the sheet in the same unit as the items on it: "3.5 x 2 in on 8.5 x 11 in", not "on 216 x 279 mm".
  • The build now fails if any tool labels a length field with a fixed unit. Four tools had that, found one at a time; a check finds all of them at once.

v1.58.02026-09-25

  • Correction: the poster splitter could read a PDF and then fail to turn it into tiles on roughly one browser in six, showing "getOrInsertComputed is not a function". The PDF reader it uses had been updated to a version that relies on JavaScript features only the newest browsers have — Chrome and Edge 145, Firefox 144, Safari 26.2 on Mac and iPhone, and no version of Samsung Internet. It now uses the reader’s compatibility build, which brings those features with it. PNG, JPG and WebP posters were never affected.
  • The poster splitter no longer shows raw error text. A password-protected PDF now says so and says what to do; a damaged or half-downloaded PDF says that, where before it failed with no message at all. Anything unexpected reads as a plain sentence with a way round it: an image export of the poster always works.
  • The image quality checker likewise shows only messages written for a person. A damaged file used to be able to surface a programming error in place of an explanation.
  • The build now refuses to finish if the page and the PDF reader’s background worker come from different builds of the library, and the PDF test runs against the build the site actually ships. It had been testing the compatibility build while the site loaded the other one, which is how this passed every check.

v1.57.02026-09-18

  • Correction: the scaling percentages were rounded to the nearest whole number while being described as the largest that still fits. A3 onto A4 showed 71%, and at 71% the page is about a millimetre too big on each edge — it does not fit. Twenty of the forty-eight targets had the same fault. They now round down, and the page says why a photocopier’s 71% preset is the conventional number rather than the one that fits.
  • Correction: the guide on turning off Fit to page suggested that if you had no ruler you trusted, you could print one and check the two against each other. That cannot detect anything: a printer shrinking by 3% shrinks both sheets equally and they agree perfectly while both are wrong. It now points at a bank card, which is 85.60 by 53.98 mm by international standard everywhere, or an unused sheet of your own paper.
  • Correction: the size converter called 72 DPI screen-only and unsuitable for print, while the image quality tool correctly explained that the resolution you need depends on viewing distance. Two pages of the same site disagreeing is worse than either being wrong. The converter now gives the same answer, with the numbers.
  • Correction: the file-size rule of thumb — under 200 KB per megapixel means detail has been lost — was stated as though it applied to every image. It applies to JPEG and other lossy formats. A small PNG has lost nothing; it simply had little to store.
  • The privacy policy said no tool transmits anything you enter. That was true of what you type and not of the Share button, which puts your settings in a link on purpose. It now says exactly that, and that the link never carries what you typed.
  • Correction: opening the label generator from a preset link loaded the right label size and then wiped the margins to zero. A sheet printed that way does not line up with the labels it was made for. The cause was a missing setting reading as the number zero rather than as missing — the same fault also cleared the margin and gap on the sheet layout calculator on any plain visit.
  • Removed a HowTo schema block from the A5 page. Google stopped showing HowTo results in search in September 2023, so it did nothing but add weight to the page. It was recorded as removed six releases ago and never was — the note was written, the code was not changed. There is now a check that fails the build instead of a note that can be wrong.

v1.56.02026-09-16

  • The poster splitter now says what order to assemble the sheets in: complete rows first, then join the rows. An A0 poster is eighteen A4 sheets at minimum and twenty-one at the default settings, and joining them as they come off the printer makes every small misalignment add to the next until the far corner is visibly out.
  • The methodology page now links ISO 216 and says plainly that the standard costs money to read, so the figures here are derived from its two defining rules and checked by the build rather than copied from a document we cannot show you.
  • Correction: every tool page carried two main landmarks — one around the explanation, one around the tool itself. A screen reader offering "skip to main content" had two places to land and no way to say which. There is now one per page.
  • Correction: the home page and the changelog said PrintReadyKit twice in the browser tab. The brand is added automatically unless the title already contains it, and the test for that was checking the wrong thing.
  • Correction: moving between pages was never recorded. The site navigates without reloading, so the analytics counted the page you arrived on and nothing after it — which is why it appeared that visitors saw 1.16 pages each. That was the measurement, not the behaviour. Page counts from 16 September onwards are not comparable with earlier ones.
  • Correction: the nesting note said an A0 poster tiles onto 16 A4 sheets and that this is what the poster splitter produces. It is not. Sixteen is the area ratio; the splitter returns 18 sheets with no margin or overlap and 21 at its defaults, because every page loses its unprintable border and overlap is paid for on both neighbouring sheets. The page now gives both figures and says to run your own settings.
  • Correction: fitting nine cards instead of eight was described as a ninth more stock. It is 12.5% more cards per sheet. The saving in sheets for a fixed order is smaller again, because sheets round up.
  • Correction: the sheet chooser labelled ISO B2 as the 50 × 70 cm poster. B2 is 500 × 707 mm and the commercial poster is 500 × 700 — seven millimetres apart, which is a visible strip on a printed sheet. They are now two separate entries.
  • Correction: Fit to page was described as shrinking a print by 3 to 6 per cent, as though that were a fixed figure. How much it shrinks depends on the paper size and the printer’s own margins. The pages now say so, and point at the calibration sheet, which measures yours.

v1.55.02026-09-11

  • Correction: the poster splitter was meant to release each PDF before opening the next. It called a method that does not exist in this version of the reader, so it silently freed nothing. It now releases the loading task, which is what actually holds the memory.
  • Correction: the paper diagram on 21 size pages did not reserve its height, so on a phone — where it sits below the text rather than beside it — everything under it could move once the diagram was measured. It now holds its space from the first paint.
  • Correction: the page height was measured against the viewport with a phone’s address bar hidden, so on load the page was taller than the visible area and settled by reflowing. It now uses the height with the bar showing — a fixed value that never promises more room than there is.
  • The graph paper preview no longer changes height when you switch between A4 and Letter, which used to move everything below it by about 70 pixels.
  • Correction: the dot grid preview showed a grid running to the edge of the page while the PDF inset it by 10 mm — 2,580 dots on screen against 2,184 on paper. Printing the preview lost the outer rows to the band a printer cannot reach. Both now draw the same grid.
  • The dot grid PDF was 1.2 MB for an A4 sheet at 5 mm, and would have been 7.6 MB at the 2 mm the tool offers, because every dot was written as four curves. Same dots, drawn differently: 275 KB.
  • The sheet layout calculator now does round items. Give it a diameter and it works out how many fit and prints cut guides as circles rather than boxes — the count is the same as a square of that diameter, but the cut needs a punch. People were already searching for this and finding a page that did not mention it.
  • The ruler now offers marks every 5 mm as well as every 1 and 0.5. Someone measuring a wall does not want four hundred lines on the page, and a sparser rule is easier to read from a distance.
  • Three pages rank in the top few results for a phrase they never actually used: the A6 page for "A6 postcard size", the A4 page for "A4 trim size", and the 30-label sheet for the spacing "between labels". Each now says it, in the sentence where it belongs. The A4 page also distinguishes the trim size from the 216 × 303 mm a printer wants with bleed.

v1.54.02026-08-25

  • The privacy policy now has a section on advertising. There is none on the site today and no advertising cookie is set — the section says so first — but it sets out what would apply if display advertising is introduced: who sets what, and how to opt out, with the links. Stating it beforehand is better than stating it afterwards.
  • The editorial policy said advertising was something that might happen one day. It now states the rule directly: advertising may fund the site, it is kept visually distinct, and it is never placed inside a tool’s controls or its results. Which envelope the finder suggests has never been for sale and will not be.

v1.53.02026-08-24

  • Correction: the ruler preview took its height from whatever length you had chosen, so switching from 2 cm to 5 cm moved everything below it by more than 300 pixels. The preview now keeps a constant height and the drawing sits inside it — which also means a 2 cm rule finally looks smaller than a 50 cm one instead of both filling the box.
  • The paper size chart kept people reading for over half a minute and offered a tool only at the very bottom. Converting a size to pixels, scaling between sizes and fitting items on a sheet are now offered where the table starts.
  • Links from a page into a tool now record where on the page they were — a sentence in the text, the task list under the answer, or the cards at the foot. Without that the reporting could say someone moved from the size chart to the converter and nothing about which route they took, which is the only thing worth knowing after moving those routes.
  • The size comparison pages state the exact percentage to scale between two sheets and then offered nothing to do with it until the very bottom of the page. Each one now points at the converter where the intro explains the relationship, and the index does the same for pairs it does not cover.
  • The DL envelope page now says plainly that window position is not standardised between manufacturers, and that the only reliable check is a folded letter in an envelope from the box you will actually use. It gave a position and left the impression it was a specification.
  • The paper size dataset is now published as CSV as well as JSON, generated from the same rows, so it opens in a spreadsheet without anyone having to convert it. The page also gives a citation line to copy, since the licence asks for attribution and it should not be work to provide it.
  • The European and US business card pages give the dimensions and said nothing about printing a sheet of them. Both now say how many fit — nine on A4 turned sideways, eight on Letter — and link to the calculator that arranges them.

v1.52.02026-08-24

  • The sheet layout calculator now offers the large poster sheets — A2, A1, A0 and B2, the one sold as 50 × 70 cm — because the question people arrive with is how many A4 fit on one of them.
  • It also explains, in words rather than only in the result, why turning an item sideways or closing the gap changes how many fit. The same A4 sheet holds eight business cards upright, nine turned, and ten with neighbouring cards sharing a cut line.
  • How to print actual size now covers the Edge PDF viewer, which Microsoft has moved to an Adobe engine with its own Page Sizing control separate from the print dialog — and answers why the actual size option is sometimes greyed out, which is almost always a paper size mismatch in the driver.
  • The paper size chart, and six other pages, had search descriptions long enough to be cut off mid-sentence. Shortened to say what the page has that the search result cannot show.
  • Added a favicon. Every browser and crawler asks for one, and this site was answering with a 404.
  • Removed a non-standard line from robots.txt that only one search engine reads and Search Console was flagging.
  • The A4 versus A5 page now uses both phrasings. People search it in either order and the page only ever said one of them.
  • The points page and the scaling guide keep people reading for over half a minute and then sent nobody anywhere — the link to a tool sat three quarters of the way down. Both now offer the relevant tool in the opening paragraph.
  • The actual size guide now says, near the top, that setting the option is the easy half — and offers the one-page calibration sheet that tells you whether it actually worked. It is the question people arrive with and the guide used to answer it a third of the way down.
  • The graph, dot grid, isometric and European business card pages named their free generator at the end of a search description too long to show it. The generator is now the first thing the result says.
  • Every paper size page now says in its search listing what you can do on it — tile it across A4, check a photo is sharp enough, work out how many fit — rather than repeating the dimensions the result already shows. Six pages were still leading with numbers a searcher can read without clicking.
  • The image quality tool now answers whether 72 or 150 DPI is printable, which depends entirely on viewing distance: 287 at arm-in-hand, 143 at arm’s length, 44 on a large format print seen from two metres. It could already work this out and never said so in those terms.
  • The search descriptions on the A1 to A4 pages put the dimensions first and the reason to visit last, where the search result cut it off mid-sentence. Reversed: the numbers are already in the search result, what is not is that you can tile a large sheet across ordinary paper or check a photo will hold up.
  • The A5 page explains printing two pages per sheet in four places and never mentioned the calculator that does it for any other size. It does now.

v1.51.02026-08-19

  • Correction: "continue on another device" was carrying only part of the setup. A sheet layout arrived without its margin, a label sheet without knowing which paper it was for, a custom paper size or custom card as the default preset instead, and a ruler measured in inches lost the fraction — six inches reopened as 152 mm rather than 152.4, which is no longer six inches. All of it travels now; what you typed still does not.
  • Correction: a shared graph paper link asking for eighth-inch spacing came back at half an inch. The spacing was checked against millimetres before the link had said it was working in inches.
  • Correction: the cut guides PDF recorded a successful download the moment the button was pressed rather than when the file existed, so a failure counted as a conversion. The button now waits, reports failure as failure, and cannot be pressed twice.
  • Correction: pressing Share and then cancelling was recorded as a share, and a share that fell back to copying the link was recorded as a share too. Both now report what actually happened.
  • The remaining eight option buttons — print direction, grid style, card layout, envelope fold, calibration paper and reference, label content mode — now tell screen readers which one is selected. Previously only the colour said so.
  • The calibration sheet button can no longer be pressed twice while it is working, and says so if the file cannot be built rather than appearing to do nothing.

v1.50.02026-08-18

  • Correction: the business card preview worked out how much room text needs using a figure three times too large, then shrank the type to compensate. A job title that printed at 12 point appeared at 5.5 in the preview, so the card on screen was not the card that came out of the printer.
  • The same estimate now accounts for letter shapes rather than using one average width. A line of capitals is far wider than a line of lower case, and treating them alike let text look like it fitted when it did not.
  • The unit, precision and shape buttons now announce which one is selected to screen readers. A sighted visitor sees the active colour; without this, nobody else could tell.
  • Errors and the poster tiling progress are now announced as they happen instead of appearing silently.
  • The estimate of how wide text will print was refined again after testing found it could still be a point out on unusual strings. It now errs on the cautious side in every case measured.
  • The same width error turned out to exist a second time, in the label generator, with a different wrong constant. Both now share one calculation, so a label preview shows the type size the PDF will actually use.

v1.48.02026-08-18

  • Correction: a shared setup link promised to reopen the tool exactly as you left it, and two tools quietly dropped part of it. The business card generator forgot the bleed and safe margin, and the size converter forgot the resolution and unit — the settings most likely to have been changed on purpose.
  • Correction: the bookmark prompt told iPhone and iPad users to press a key combination those devices do not have, and Android users a different one they also lack. It now names the button that actually exists on the device.
  • Correction: dismissing that prompt lasted until the next page. It now stays dismissed for the rest of the visit, which is what it always said it did.
  • Wording: the envelope finder listed "every standard envelope" when it holds the common ones, the paper weight calculator offered "any standard size" while carrying ten, and the size chart called itself complete. All three now describe what they actually contain.

v1.47.02026-08-18

  • Correction: a JPEG can record its resolution in two places, and the analyser stopped at the first one it found. When the two disagreed — which happens whenever one editor writes a value and another does not update it — you were shown one figure with no hint that the file contained another. Both are now read, and a disagreement is reported rather than resolved silently.
  • Correction: images can declare a different resolution horizontally and vertically. Only the horizontal one was read, so a file with non-square pixels reported a single confident number that was true in one direction and wrong in the other. Both axes are read now, for JPEG and PNG alike.
  • Correction: the reading of how hard a file was compressed is calibrated for photographs, and was being applied to every format. PNG owners were told their lossless file was heavily compressed and warned about artefacts that cannot occur in it. The file type is now identified from its own header and the explanation matches it.
  • Correction: the wording said a barely compressed file had discarded nothing, while listing top-quality JPEG as an example. A JPEG always discards something.
  • Correction: the scaling percentages ignored the possibility of turning the paper. An A4 landscape page onto A3 was reported as unable to enlarge at all, when turning the sheet allows 141%. Rows that need the paper turned now say so.
  • The sheet layout fields no longer accept values the calculator then ignores: a negative margin showed as typed and quietly produced an answer for a different sheet.
  • The label generator now refuses grids large enough to overwhelm the browser, at a limit far beyond any real label stock.

v1.46.02026-08-18

  • Correction: the printable ruler sat hard against the top-left corner of the sheet. Home printers cannot reach the outer few millimetres, so the half-millimetre marks vanished and the centimetre marks lost their first third — on the one tool where being the right size is the entire point. The rule now sits 10 mm inside the edge.
  • The ruler you print from the preview now carries the same accuracy check as the PDF: a line of stated length to measure, and the reminder to print at 100%. Without it there was no way to tell that a printer had quietly scaled the sheet.
  • Correction: Print preview sent the drawing to whatever sheet the browser defaulted to, and let it shrink to fit. A 20 cm rule went onto a portrait sheet too narrow to hold it and came out smaller than asked. It now selects the sheet, pins the drawing to its real dimensions, and says to use the PDF when nothing fits.
  • The note about which page the PDF will use is now taken from the page chooser itself. It had stopped at A3 while the FAQ below it went on to mention A2.

v1.45.02026-08-17

  • Correction: the ruler accepted lengths up to 560 mm everywhere except the box you type in, which silently capped at 300. Typing 400 gave you 300 with no explanation, on the most used tool on the site.
  • Correction: choosing a US architectural scale left the page size on A4 if it had been metric before, so an architect asking for a 1/4 inch scale rule got it on the one sheet their printer is least likely to hold at true size. The paper now follows the scale.
  • Correction: the graph paper generator advertised 1/8 and 1/4 inch spacing and refused to accept either — the smallest it allowed was half a millimetre regardless of unit.
  • Correction: a shared graph paper link carrying an absurdly small spacing could lock up the browser building the PDF. Preview and PDF now clamp identically.
  • Correction: the built-in round sticker layout was rejected as too tall by the checker, although it fits an A4 sheet with 13 mm to spare. The checker assumed the bottom margin had to match the top.
  • Correction: round labels sat off-centre whenever the label was wider than it was tall — up to 17 mm out on a wide cell.
  • Correction: switching the pixel calculator between millimetres and inches kept the numbers and changed their meaning, so an A4 sheet became a five-metre one and the pixel count came out 25 times too high.
  • The image analyser now refuses images that are enormous once decoded rather than only enormous as files; a 200 megapixel photo can be a small download and still exhaust the browser.
  • The poster splitter now releases each PDF before opening the next, instead of holding every document opened during a visit.
  • Correction: the sheet layout page said nine US business cards fit a Letter sheet. Its own calculator says eight at the settings shown.
  • Correction: the envelope finder listed the roomiest match first rather than the closest. Asking for an A4 sheet folded once put C4 at the top, an envelope nearly twice the size of the contents, ahead of the C5 that is the answer.
  • Correction: filling in a business card — name, title, contact details, layout — was not recorded as using the tool, and neither was uploading a poster. Both counted only a handful of settings.
  • The two lists of paper dimensions are now checked against each other at build time. They agreed, but nothing said so, and a list kept in two places is where every content error on this site has come from.
  • The A-series descriptions in the data layer said "half of A4" where the pages themselves explain that each step is nominally half and rounds down. A5 is 0.34% short of half an A4, and the wording now says so.
  • The business card generator now says when no bleed means no crop marks, and warns when the safe margin leaves too little room to design in.

v1.43.02026-08-17

  • Correction: the new engagement measurement counted arriving through a share link as using the tool. Five tools restore their settings from the URL, and the related-links cards pass the paper size along, so the most common route from a size page into a tool was being recorded as activity before the visitor touched anything.
  • Correction: downloads were recorded when the button was pressed rather than when the file existed. A PDF that failed to build still counted as a download, and the poster splitter — the one most likely to run out of memory — was the worst affected. Failures are now recorded as failures.
  • The image analyser was listed under Generators although it produces no file, and the poster splitter under Reference although it produces a PDF. Both moved, and the description above the section is now written from what the tools actually output.
  • The Terms and Privacy pages carried dates from before they were last rewritten, and the changelog said it was reviewed in July while listing an August release. All three now reflect reality.
  • Security: the poster splitter opens PDFs you choose, and the library it uses had an advisory allowing a malicious file to run code in the page. Upgraded to the fixed release, with form scripting switched off as well — the splitter rasterises pages and never needs it.
  • The pdf.js worker file was a hand-made copy that had to be replaced by hand whenever the library changed. It is now copied at build time, because a mismatch there breaks PDF opening for visitors while leaving every build check green.
  • Share and copy actions were being recorded as clicks through to another tool, which made the one question that measurement exists to answer — how many people move from one tool to a second — unanswerable. They are now separate.
  • The social preview image was being served as an unknown file type, which meant it could refuse to render when a link was shared. It now declares itself as an image.
  • Next.js writes a plain-text copy of every page beside it, carrying the same words, for the browser to use when navigating. Search engines are now told to leave those copies alone; the pages themselves, the dataset and llms.txt are unaffected.
  • The Tools page described six of the twelve tools in its search listing, and the reference section promised only conversions although it now holds the photo resolution checker. Both rewritten.
  • Wording corrections: ISO 269 is described as withdrawn rather than normative on the DL envelope page, an unsourced claim about how long people look at flyers is gone, and the homepage no longer says every output is generated mathematically now that some are produced from files you supply.

v1.42.02026-08-17

  • The five tools that produce a file now record that someone changed a setting, not only that they downloaded. Until now a generator reported its successes and nothing else, so there was no way to see how many people opened the ruler and left without a PDF.
  • The points page gave its whole answer in the search result: four sizes in pt, and no reason to open it. It now leads with A4 and points to what the page has that the snippet cannot — the full table for 48 sizes, and why your PDF reads 595.28.
  • The A4 flyer page listed specifications and offered nothing to do with them. It now links to the resolution check and the paper weight converter from the paragraphs that raise those exact questions.
  • The ruler is the most used tool on the site and was reachable from five pages out of seventy-eight. Three guides that already talk about measuring — turning off fit-to-page, choosing a scaling option, and drawing on isometric grids — now say where to get one.

v1.41.02026-08-16

  • The scaling guide never used the words half its readers do. Print dialogs say “Fit to paper” as often as “Fit to printable area”, and the page used only the second. Both are listed now, along with “Fill page” — which is a genuinely different behaviour that crops rather than shrinks, and was missing entirely.
  • How to print actual size now covers Word, Excel and Publisher, and explains that the printer driver has its own scaling control behind the Properties button — the usual reason a print comes out small when every visible setting looks right.
  • How many A4 fit in A2, A1 or A0: a question the sheet layout calculator could not answer, because it reasons about printer margins and ISO nesting has nothing to do with them. The counts are exact and derived from the size data, with a build-time check that the two ways of calculating them agree.
  • Fixed: links from article text into the tools were never counted, so the reporting could show the cards at the foot of a page going unused while saying nothing about the sentence halfway down that actually sends people there.
  • Fixed: events fired before the analytics script finished loading were discarded rather than queued. Anything done in the first seconds of a visit went unrecorded, including errors — which is why the error counter read zero while real failures were being observed in the field.
  • How to print actual size now answers whether the setting can be made permanent. It mostly cannot in a browser, and saying so is more useful than leaving people hunting for a switch that does not exist.

v1.40.02026-08-15

  • Correction: the scale ruler page said imperial scales were not supported. They have been in the generator since 1.28 \u2014 ten US architectural scales and six engineer scales. The page now lists all of them with the ratio behind each, and answers what 1/4\u201d = 1\u2019-0\u201d is as a ratio (1:48).
  • The page and the generator now read their scale list from one place, so the two cannot describe different tools again.
  • Two metric ratios the generator offers, 1:5 and 1:10, were missing from the reference table and are now listed.
  • Correction: the machine-readable index at /llms.txt listed seven of the twelve tools, leaving the calibration test, the image analyser, the paper weight converter, the envelope finder and the sheet layout calculator invisible to the assistants that cite this site. It is now generated from the same tool list the rest of the site uses.
  • The sitemap now takes its tool URLs from that same list too, and the build fails on a duplicate entry rather than shipping one.
  • Seven tool descriptions were long enough to be cut off in search results, hiding the end of the sentence. Shortened without losing what each tool does.

v1.39.02026-08-14

  • Corrections across the trust pages, and the \u201ceditorial team\u201d wording removed \u2014 this is independently maintained, and naming a team overstated it.
  • Three contradictions fixed where a page described a tool as it used to be: the ruler\u2019s units, the size chart\u2019s halving claim, and the A5 fold.
  • Settings can now be carried to another device from six tools rather than one.

v1.38.02026-08-13

  • Size comparison pages now offer a next step — they were the only pages on the site that answered a question and left you there.

v1.37.02026-08-13

  • The printable ruler can now mark half-millimetres, for model making and machining, and prints up to 560 mm across A4, A3 or A2.

v1.33.0 – 1.36.02026-08-12

  • A1 and A2 pages rebuilt with full pixel tables and the comparisons people actually make — A1 against a 24 × 36 inch poster, A2 against an 18 × 24 inch frame.
  • The bleed guide now leads with the number people search for: A4 with 3 mm bleed is a 216 × 303 mm canvas, and every other standard size alongside it.
  • Every size page answers “How big is it?” in those words, and offers the next task rather than only the dimensions.
  • The actual-size guide routes to the tool that does the specific job — tiling, layout, resolution — instead of only explaining the setting.

v1.31.0 – 1.32.02026-08-12

  • New: how many fit on a sheet. Enter an item size and see the arrangement, the wasted paper and a printable sheet of cut guides. Nine business cards fit an A4 — but only turned sideways.
  • New: whether Tabloid, Ledger, ANSI B and 11 × 17 are the same sheet (they are), and how each differs from A3 (considerably).
  • The DPI guide now compares 72, 150 and 300 directly, because resolution counts in two directions and the difference is larger than it looks.

v1.25.0 – 1.30.02026-08-11

  • Errors now show a page you can leave from, instead of a blank screen — and report themselves so they can be fixed.
  • The printable ruler gained US architectural and engineer scales: ¼” = 1’-0” through 1” = 100’.
  • The image analyser answers the question people actually ask — whether a file of so many kilobytes is enough — and explains why file size cannot settle it.
  • Envelope finder covers window envelopes and where the address has to sit on the sheet.
  • Graph paper adds B5 and B6, the notebook sizes most dot-grid printing is aimed at.
  • After a download, a quiet prompt to keep the link — and a way to send your settings to another device.

v1.22.0 – 1.24.02026-08-04

  • Layout stability fixed properly: an earlier attempt made it worse, which the field measurements showed plainly.
  • Tool usage is now measured — which tools produce files, and in what format. Nothing you type or upload is ever included.

v1.21.02026-08-02

  • New: RGB vs CMYK guide — why print never matches the screen, which colours do not survive, rich black, ink coverage limits. Deliberately no converter: without an ICC profile any conversion is a guess, and we would rather say so than bury a disclaimer.

v1.20.02026-08-02

  • New: paper weight converter — gsm to pounds by grade, because 80 lb Text is 118 gsm while 80 lb Cover is 216 gsm. Checked against 17 published industry equivalences.
  • The poster splitter now refuses oversized jobs with an explanation instead of freezing the browser.

v1.19.02026-08-01

  • New: image print quality analyser — drop in a photo and see how large it prints well, the effective resolution on any sheet, and what its embedded DPI actually claims. Reads JPEG and PNG resolution headers in your browser, without uploading.

v1.18.02026-08-01

  • New: print scale calibration test — a sheet with a 100 mm square and two line references that tells you the exact percentage your printer produced, and the corrective scale to reprint at.

v1.17.02026-07-30

  • New: every paper size in points and picas, with the exact fractional values PDF tools store.
  • Points added to the size converter, the 48-size chart and the open dataset.
  • Two layout-stability and load-speed fixes traced from real visitor measurements.

v1.16.02026-07-29

  • The printable ruler now generates architect scales from 1:20 to 1:2500, with a guide explaining which ratio suits which drawing.
  • The poster splitter preview now shows your own artwork behind the cut lines.

v1.15.02026-07-29

  • New: envelope finder — pick a paper size and a fold, see which standard envelopes take it and with how much room.
  • New: isometric grid mode and a guide to the 30-degree drawing lattice.
  • Proper app icons, so the site installs cleanly to a home screen.

v1.14.02026-07-29

  • The business card generator can now produce a finished minimal card from your name and details, not only an empty guide template.
  • The size converter now shows photocopier scaling percentages — A4 to A3 is 141%, A3 to A4 is 71%.

v1.13.02026-07-28

  • Label sheets can now be filled in directly: the same text on every label, or an address list pasted in with one entry per label, across as many pages as needed. No Word merge required.

v1.12.02026-07-28

  • New: dot grid mode for the graph paper generator, plus a guide to the bullet-journal layout.

v1.9.0 – 1.11.42026-07-26

  • Analytics added, with consent handled by region and advertising storage off everywhere.
  • Every paper size page now draws a credit card at the same scale, as a physical reference.
  • Rebuilt the paper sizes hub, added entity markup, and consolidated www and preview domains onto one canonical address.

v1.8.02026-07-11

  • New: the complete paper size chart — all 48 sizes across ISO A/B/C, US, ANSI and ARCH, with a downloadable 2-page PDF.
  • New: open data — the full size catalogue as a CC-BY JSON dataset at /data/paper-sizes.json, generated from the same source file as the site tables.
  • New: comparison hub and this changelog.

v1.7.02026-07-11

  • Rebuilt the graph-paper reference page (grid naming, paper weights, an honest note on what the generator does not do).
  • Enriched all flyer, label and business-card template pages with verified specs: exact bleed-inclusive pixel sizes, label-stock guidance, barcode quiet zones, the closed arithmetic of the 30-up sheet.

v1.6.02026-07-11

  • Rebuilt the US Legal and Tabloid pages — including the honest note that most US courts now require Letter, and the Tabloid/Ledger naming explained.
  • Expanded all four envelope pages with printing-and-mailing guidance and folding maths.

v1.5.02026-07-11

  • Rebuilt the US Letter page around its exact-pixel property (inch-defined sizes give whole pixels at every DPI).
  • New: the A4 vs US Letter comparison — scaling rules and the universal layout box.

v1.4.02026-07-11

  • True-scale PDF downloads on every generator: ruler (with a printed accuracy-check line), graph paper, label sheets and business-card templates.
  • Fixed two inaccuracies: a claim that 300 mm fits on A4, and a tools listing that promised grid types the generator does not offer.

v1.3.02026-07-10

  • The poster split calculator became a real tool: upload an image or PDF and download a tiled, print-ready PDF with alignment guides and cut marks — everything runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded.

v1.2.12026-07-10

  • Accuracy and privacy pass: every "exactly" claim audited against the standards, duplicate structured data removed, redirects consolidated to a single canonical host, and the privacy policy rewritten to describe precisely what runs here (cookie-less analytics, no personal data).

v1.1.0 – 1.2.02026-07-09

  • Rebuilt the A0–A6 reference pages with per-size pixel tables, design specs and FAQ; added the first size comparisons and the poster tiling calculator.

v1.0.02026-05-16

  • Initial launch: paper-size references, unit and DPI converters, printable templates and printing guides.