[Groff] Re: (groff+)ghostscript/us letter/paper size problems

[Louis Guillaume]

Mike Bishop wrote:
> I have just spent a happy hour PULLING MY HAIR OUT over misformatted 
> troff documents on my printers ... which printed perfectly several
> months ago.  
>
> The problem is that recent versions of ghostscript will (often)
> assume a4 paper size, regardless of /etc/paper.  This applies
> after ghostscript 8.64-5 but I am not sure which version (8.70 has
> the problem).

I don't know much about how this is "supposed" to work with /etc/paper 
or /etc/papersize. I always thought those were ghostscript or grops things.

If you need to explicitly define a paper size for groff to use (that 
isn't the default) I think you need: `-dpaper=letter' in addition to 
`-P-pletter'. The latter is for grops.

Louis