Originally Posted by
tedg
You are mistaken, have you even read this thread?
In most cases, there is an intended sheet size, and such, your inteded text height should be set for that sheet size.
But as it has been mentioned many times in this thread; some clients want ones size, but be able to print it another size and still read it (like half size etc).
Or some clients' clients want to print some other odd/smaller size, which wouldn't be the original designers' concern.
So to say (paraphrasing) "the text size should never alter or you've chosen the wrong size paper" would be an inaccurate, short sighted statement.