In article <20171026122507.ga13...@www.stare.cz> Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > On Oct 26 11:36:45, w...@roquesor.com wrote: > > In article <20171026083919.ga38...@www.stare.cz> Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> > > wrote: > > > I am not sure whether man -Tpdf and man -Tps honour the paper size. > > > > I think it does. > > > > I don't have a printer at hand to verify it but if in the gv(1) menu > > I select alternativelly A4 (or Letter) and Default > > You can "select alternatively" whatever you want in the gv(1) window, > but that don't make it so. My point is that files which really are A4 > just already say so in the gv(1) box, without "selecting it alternatively".
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 () () As a side note. You made me realize of something I didn't notice when I migrated to openbsd; I have files generated with GNU roff that defaults to letter size. This doesn't happen on Linux, I ignore why. > > > I can see how the page get resized (or not) > > depending on the 'ouput paper' man.conf setting. > > Yes it does. But why does it say e.g. "y841x595" instead of A4? > (Maybe "A4" is just a shorthand for that, I don't know). > > Jan > >
