On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:55:33AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ag> psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps > > > > First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in there? > > Yes, I put it in there later in hope that it would make a difference. > > > There's not too much output from "apropos paper" -- you might look > > through there. Paperconfig looks especially promising. > > Yep, good call! Changing /etc/papersize from letter to legal was all > it took. Funny that the man page for lpr (or man pages for PS > utilities) doesn't mention paper configuration. Also, it seems > strange that there seems to be no way to override the setting with a > command-line parameter. All I needed was to print two legal-sized > pages, and then go back to letter-sized...
According to man pages paperconf(1) and papersize(5), programs using the libpaper library will use the PAPERCONF environment variable in preference to /etc/papersize. This can save you from becoming root just to change /etc/papersize. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
