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Abstract

Heat setting by the conventional tentering method provides polyamide film which is anisotropic in heat shrinkage. Therefore, only the central part of the film can be used for applications which need a low degree of anisotropy. The present invention provides an improved method of heat-setting biaxially oriented polyamide film in flat form. Said method is characterized in that biaxially oriented polyamide film, with the edges thereof gripped, is heated to an adequate temperature after preheating the polyamide film when it is desired, which is 10.degree.-40.degree. C. lower than the melting point of the film, by bringing it into close contact with the surface of a heating body, and immediately thereafter the film is cooled to a temperature at which the film does not deform easily. The present invention also provides biaxially oriented polyamide film which has a uniform heat shrinkage across the entire width of the film. The shrinkage by hot water at 100.degree. C. is smaller than 5.0% in all the directions in the plane, and the anisotropy H (%) in hot water shrinkage which is calculated from the formula below is less than 30%, preferably less than 20%, across the entire width of the film. ##EQU1## (where S.sub.45 and S.sub.135 respectively denote the shrinkage (by hot water at 100.degree. C.) in the directions deviated leftward 45.degree. and 135.degree. from the machine direction.)

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