Re: [Groff] Patch for including the page size in Postscript

[Egil Kvaleberg]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 01:17, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:

> Hmm...
> 
> %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 792 0 () ()
> 
> Shouldn't this rather be:
> 
> %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 792 0 0

Don't think so.

My documentation says that the arguments are:

        Default      Tag name of media
        612          Media width
        792          Media height
        0            Paper weight in g/m2
        ()           Paper color, e.g. white
        ()           Preprinted form type

An example that Adobe gives in
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5001.DSC_Spec.pdf
is:

        %%DocumentMedia: Regular 612 792 75 white ( )

I believe that as long as we do not really know anything about paper
weight and colour, it is best to leave them unspecified.

> Both my previewer (GSview) and PDF distiller (JawsPDF) seems to accept the 
> page dimensions without trouble.

Excellent. I would imagine that GSview uses the %DocumentMedia, whereas
the distiller would use the PageSize.

Egil
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