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
"man -t" causes the the man page to be processed by "groff -Tps".
Postscript output from groff is created with the postprocessor "grops".
The paper size is specified in the file "DESC". On my box (FC3) this is
in the directory /usr/share/groff/1.18.1.1/font/devps. This file
contains the line:
papersize /etc/papersize a4
I think what this means is that if the file /etc/papersize exists it
will try to get the paper size from there. Otherwise it will default to
a4. On my box the file does not exist. A simple experiment would be
the following:
$ man -t cat > cat1.ps
$ echo "letter" > /etc/papersize
$ man -t cat > cat2.ps
$ diff cat1.ps cat2.ps
Ross
