paper size

[nori heikkinen]

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,

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[Bijan Soleymani]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:47:08AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote:

> 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 ...

I'm not sure, but /etc/papersize may have something to do with this.

Bijan


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[Ernest Johanson]

Check /etc/papersize.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, nori heikkinen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:47:08 -0400
> From: nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: paper size
>
> 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>
>
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[nori heikkinen]

on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:56:36PM +0100, Antony Gelberg insinuated:

> You could check the contents of /etc/papersize.

letter

> 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. :)

checked all of them, and they're all set to letter ... just exported
the PAPERSIZE env variable to letter, and still no dice.

am i missing something?

thanks,

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[Mark C]

Once upon a time nori heikkinen was quoted as saying:

> 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.

If I'm correct the file you need is /etc/papersize

try installing the package libpaper1

Hope that helps

Mark

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[Mark C]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 19:00, nori heikkinen wrote:

> checked all of them, and they're all set to letter ... just exported
> the PAPERSIZE env variable to letter, and still no dice.
>
> am i missing something?

letter ;)

Seriously, I had a very similar problem, I had set everything up to use
A4 (UK), and then setup cups, in every gnome print option, the A4 option
vanished and left me with letter.
In the end I tracked it down to the drivers I was using with cups (gimp
print), I used the New Cups HP drivers and A4 magically popped backup.

I know its not the same, but It may be worth checking the drivers the
printer is using
(but at the same time I may be wrong, as printing is one of my very,very
weak points).

Mark



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[nori heikkinen]

on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:46:53PM +0100, Mark C insinuated:

> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 19:00, nori heikkinen wrote:
>

> > checked all of them, and they're all set to letter ... just exported
> > the PAPERSIZE env variable to letter, and still no dice.
> >
> > am i missing something?

>
> letter ;)
>
> Seriously, I had a very similar problem, I had set everything up to use
> A4 (UK), and then setup cups, in every gnome print option, the A4 option
> vanished and left me with letter.
> In the end I tracked it down to the drivers I was using with cups (gimp
> print), I used the New Cups HP drivers and A4 magically popped backup.
>
> I know its not the same, but It may be worth checking the drivers the
> printer is using
> (but at the same time I may be wrong, as printing is one of my very,very
> weak points).

yeah, but that's not even the issue -- i don't get as far as even
printing it out. in fact, until yesterday, i didn't have networked
printing configured correctly, so i was printing to ps, sending the
files to a friend, and having him print them for me -- and it was in
the ps files themselves that i was noticing the paper size. a
particular document, if printed on a4, is 16 pages, and if on letter,
it's 19 pages. i only have to look at the command-line output of the
enscript command to see what the paper size was.

recap of what i know:

i have had libpaper1. my /etc/papersize is set to letter, as is my
$PAPERSIZE environment variable. `paperconf` == letter.
/usr/sbin/paperconfig just modifies /etc/papersize, which is already
letter.

what else is there left to do??

thanks again,

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[Paul Worrall]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:57:48AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote:

> i have had libpaper1. my /etc/papersize is set to letter, as is my
> $PAPERSIZE environment variable. `paperconf` == letter.
> /usr/sbin/paperconfig just modifies /etc/papersize, which is already
> letter.
>
> what else is there left to do??

Have you looked in /etc/enscript.cfg ??

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[nori heikkinen]

on Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:15:54PM +0100, Paul Worrall insinuated:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:57:48AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote:

> > i have had libpaper1. my /etc/papersize is set to letter, as is my
> > $PAPERSIZE environment variable. `paperconf` == letter.
> > /usr/sbin/paperconfig just modifies /etc/papersize, which is already
> > letter.
> >
> > what else is there left to do??

>
> Have you looked in /etc/enscript.cfg ??

that's it! thanks!! :)

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