Re: The footers in a2ps

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:15:58PM -0500, Malcolm E. Jordan wrote:
>
> > I have installed a2ps version 4.13b-4.3 on Debian 3.1 stable with the 
> > 2.4 linux kernel. The program works well with the exception that I 
> > cannot get any of the three footers to print.  I have gone over the 
> > documentation, search the archives, and reinstalled the program but 
> > nothing seems to work.  I wonder if the code for the footers was 
> > complied into this version.  I didn't download the source code and 
> > probable couldn't understand it if I had it in hand.  Does anyone 
> > understand what is happening and have any suggestions as how to fix it.
> > Thanks.
>
>
> I don't know a2ps, but in other situations I have has trouble with
> footers when my print system was configured for A4 paper and I was
> using USLetter paper which is slightly shorter. Look for config.
> settings of a2ps

Not in this case: I have set the printer to letter and used 
--medium=Letterdj for a2ps and then output to file: no footers show on 
the page in gv.

But you are right: setting the printer to letter when you have letter 
size paper is critical, as I found out the long way ;-)

H