Bug#266421: dvips supports only predefined paper sizes with -T option

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 17.08.04 Andreas Schrell (as@schrell.de) wrote:

Hi,

> dvips supports -T option with arbitrary page size given as offset
> pair. the suggested version gives the following error and uses the
> default paper size.
> 
> dvips -T 530mm,230mm -o ally.ps ally.dvi
> 
> This is dvips(k) 5.92b p1.6 Copyright 2003 ASCII Corp.(www-ptex@ascii.co.jp)
> based on dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2004.08.17:2144' -> ally.ps
> dvips: no match for special paper size found; using default
> <texc.pro><pstricks.pro><pst-dots.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro><special.pro>.
> <cmsy10.pfb>[1<EPS/IMG03641-mask.eps><EPS/IMG03614-mask.eps>
> <EPS/IMG03659-mask.eps><EPS/IMG03685-mask.eps><EPS/IMG03726-mask.eps>] [2
> <EPS/IMG02545.eps><EPS/IMG03430.eps><EPS/IMG05045.eps>]
> 
> original dvips(k) 5.92b (suse distrib) works correct.
> 
root@drachi:~# more z1.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{charter}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}
root@drachi:~# latex z1
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
entering extended mode
<snip>
Transcript written on z1.log.
root@drachi:~# dvips -T 530mm,230mm -o z1.ps z1.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2004.08.17:2055' -> z1.ps
<texc.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro>. <bchr8a.pfb>[1]

my dvips has another banner that your one. Could it be dvipsk-ja
you want submit the bug to? I didn't check, how the ps-file looks
like.

H. 
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