Re: [Groff] Problem with ps2pdf and A4 format

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 09:24 p.m. 26/02/2003 +0100, Thomas Baruchel wrote:
> Brest, le mercredi 26 février
>
> Hi,
>
> I use groff 1.17, with -ma4 macro and here is my deps/DESC file
> >  broken 7
> >  paperlength 841890

A wild shot, but you mention in a newer post about your inability to add 
anything more to an already full hard-drive; what about changing 'broken' 
to 0 and see if that helps?

> or US letter or anything I don't want to know). I tried to insert
> by myself in the grops output the line:
>
>   %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
>
> that I found in a2ps output (or enscript, don't remember), but the
> result is the same than previsouly.
>
> What do I wrong ?

You are not doing anything wrong, PS RIPs for PDF rendering tend to be 
quite dumb.  If you are familiar with the idea of specials, (as used for 
example with TeX and DVIPS), you could accomplish what you want by using a 
grops escape such as:

\X'ps: exec << /PageSize A4 /ImagingBBox null >> setpagedevice'

probably embedded in a header. Big WARNING, I haven't tested this.


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