On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:05:53AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:45AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > >>When I print a man page by using > >> man -t foo | lpr > >>it comes out formatted for A4 size paper. How can I force > >>the output to be for letter size (8-1/2 by 11 in) paper? > >> > >>This doesn't look as easy as it ought to be. > >> > >>jon > > > >There seem to be two possibilities. Go into the cups web interface and > >change the options of your default printer to letter and not A4. > > > >Alternately use mpage in place of lpr and set the page size with the -b > >option. > > I wouldn't expect either to work especially well as the man command is > producing postscript for A4 paper. > > Best solution is for USA to conform to world standards:-) > > Best workaround, read /etc/profile.d/lang.sh for hints on what can be > set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n Well let me say this about that: 1. man produces text not postscript, also cups printing can print postscript and presumable change its page size. 2. mpage takes postscript as one of its input formats. So I would expect that both methods should work. -- ======================================================================= Many pages make a thick book. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
