Re: [Groff] Text running off the top of the page. Is it a bug?

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 06:25 p.m. 03/01/2003 +0100, Egil Kvaleberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:19, Daniele Furlan wrote:
>
> > Try to use with -s option:
> >
> > ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=size_you_want foo.ps
>
> Which I constantly do myself too, and that makes me wonder:
>
>         Is there any way that groff does/should put anything into the
>         postscript file about the paper size the page is formatted for,
>         which in its turn should cause gv and ps2pdf to find out
>         the proper paper size by itself.
>
> I know too little about postscript myself, but for me it would seem an
> obvious thing?

Hmm... As it stands, devps doesn't give a clue about the actual page output 
size. It would be great if devps output a BoundingBox comment and perhaps a 
DocumentPaperSizes comment (the latter is a level 2 feature, but groff PS 
doesn't support level 1 anymore, does it?). Somethng like this:

for a4:

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842
%%DocumentPaperSizes: a4

for US letter:

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
%%DocumentPaperSizes: letter

BoundingBox takes precedence.