Hi Jan, Jan Stary wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:31:38PM +0200:
>>>> In the ps file generated by mandoc you should have this line: >>>> >>>> %%DocumentMedia: Default 595 841 0 () () >>>> >>>> Where 595 841 correspond to A4. If you set output paper to "letter" >>>> that line will say: >>>> >>>> %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 790 0 () () > Yes. It seems that these are just _comments_ to the PS interpreter They are comments in the sense of the PostScript programming language, but they have a strictly specified syntax and sematics according to the "PostScript Language Document Structuring Conventions Specification", which is kind of a language of its own: DSC. The first line in the file, "%!PS-Adobe-3.0", actually says that it is a DSC 3.0 document - but it says nothing about the PostScript level. > and the "Default" is just an arbitrary given name, right? I guess so, but i'm not completely sure. I could find no information on that. > (Sorry, I don't know the language.) So GV just shows that, > but it does not _determine_ the actual media size, right? Right. > Looking at term_ps.c, mandoc writes "Default ... " for every paper size. Exactly. I could print "A3", "A4", "A5", "letter", "legal" in that place, and interactive users of gv(1) would likely be happier. But i have no idea what effect it might have on other programs or on printers, or how to do the same for PDF. Yours, Ingo
