Re: paper size

[Ernest Johanson <ejohan@fuller.edu>]

Check /etc/papersize.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, nori heikkinen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:47:08 -0400
> From: nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: paper size
> 
> trying to print things via enscript and mpage.  they're both
> defaulting to a4 paper, and i can't figure out how to specify letter
> paper.
> 
> with enscript, -M letter looks like it should work:
> 
>     -M name, --media=name
>             Select  an  output media name.  Enscript's default output
>             media is determined from libpaper and falls back to A4.
> 
> ... but does not.
> 
> the -b Letter option from mpage looks similarly promising:
> 
>     -bpapertype
>           Prepare output for selected paper type.  Papersize can be A3
>           for European  A3,  A4 for European A4, Letter for US Letter
>           or Legal for Legal sized paper.  For default see 'mpage -x'.
>           To see  the list  of currently available types, just give
>           the 'mpage -bl' or 'mpage -b?' command (Note: mpage exits
>           after finding such option use.)
> 
> .. but also poos.
> 
> is there some environment variable i need set?  this works fine on
> other debian systems i use (that i did not, unfortunately, install
> myself) without `env` showing anything about paper sizes ...
> 
> tia,
> 
> </nori>
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