On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:

Mike Bishop wrote: <snip>

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The problem is that recent versions of ghostscript will (often) assume a4 paper size, regardless of /etc/paper. This applies after ghostscript 8.64-5 but I am not sure which version (8.70 has the problem).

I don't know much about how this is "supposed" to work with /etc/paper or /etc/papersize. I always thought those were ghostscript or grops things.

If you need to explicitly define a paper size for groff to use (that isn't the default) I think you need: `-dpaper=letter' in addition to `-P-pletter'. The latter is for grops.

Louis

Actually, I screwed up. The file on Arch at /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/DESC has "papersize a4" while a more usual entry is "papersize /etc/papersize a4" ... so my settings in /etc/papersize were ignored. I looked for a complicated answer and found it! Rgds, -- Mike Bishop Willow, Alaska