On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:47:08AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: > trying to print things via enscript and mpage. they're both > defaulting to a4 paper, and i can't figure out how to specify letter > paper. > > with enscript, -M letter looks like it should work: > > -M name, --media=name > Select an output media name. Enscript's default output > media is determined from libpaper and falls back to A4. > > ... but does not. > > the -b Letter option from mpage looks similarly promising: > > -bpapertype > Prepare output for selected paper type. Papersize can be A3 > for European A3, A4 for European A4, Letter for US Letter > or Legal for Legal sized paper. For default see 'mpage -x'. > To see the list of currently available types, just give > the 'mpage -bl' or 'mpage -b?' command (Note: mpage exits > after finding such option use.) > > .. but also poos. > > is there some environment variable i need set? this works fine on > other debian systems i use (that i did not, unfortunately, install > myself) without `env` showing anything about paper sizes ... > > tia, > > </nori>
You could check the contents of /etc/papersize. apropos paper, and then man papersize are two useful commands that you might have tried. Not sure if that file is used by those specific applications, but it's what I'd look at first. :) Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
