2T O P S Y T U R V Y You are surprised how the Annual Report 2015 of Austrian Standards is presented Little wonder We decided to turn standards upside down or simply neglect them for once We wanted to see for ourselves Does a printed publication fulfil its function without standards such as type area and defined font sizes for headings subheadings and body text or even without a standard font What happens if you throw to the wind almost all typographical rules related to readability We did not use the paper format standard A4 and even the selection of paper types was left to chance We simply used paper grades readily available in the print shop Now you hold the result of this experiment in your hands See for yourself Nevertheless this is only possible because standards do exist Without them we would not have been able to send the texts to the graphic designer and without PDF the most important standard for printers today it would have been impossible to transfer the data in a compact and readable format We jettisoned standards and quickly noticed that we cannot do without them OUR CONCLUSION A world without standards is conceivable with a lot of imagination but it definitely would not be a better world What do you think Send us an e mail we look forward to reading from you Dr Johannes Stern j stern austrian standards at The latter also with a view to sustain ability and economical efficiency To save costs we also dispensed with a few other things lavish photography cost intensive graphical presentation of statistics and expensive perfect binding Statements on standardization The draft Standardization Act that was released for consultation in June 2015 triggered inten sive debates on standards Around 100 com ments were submitted You can read extracts from them throughout this Annual Report All the comments on the ministerial draft bill for a new Standardization Act are available in German at https www parlament gv at PAKT VHG XXV ME ME 00137 index shtml

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