In article ,
says...

We do have free plates in Europe too, for the major countries, but
they are all A4 PDFs and not only are they unreadable if reduced to A5
(the normal plate size) but this appears to be deliberate, to protect
the revenue of firms like Jepp....


Interesting - In France, in the past year the official government
publications (for paid subscribers) for instrument plates has moved from
A5 to A4 (half-size to full-size 8.5X11 for those Americans unfamiliar
with European sheet sizes). I assume this was done in full coordination
with aircraft manufacturers, who agreed to increase cockpit size on new
models, and retrofit all older planes with twice as much knee space for
the new charts.
;-)

GF