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paperconf - print paper configuration informations
paperconf
[ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h ] [ -c | -m | -i ]
paperconf
prints informations about a given paper. The informations that can be obtaineed
are the name of the paper, its size and its width or height. When called
without arguments, paperconf prints the name of the system- or user-specified
paper, obtained by looking in order at the PAPERSIZE environment variable,
at the contents of the file specified by the PAPERCONF environment variable,
at the contects of ${prefix}/etc/papersize or by using letter as a fall-back
value if none of the other alternatives are successful. By default, width
and height of the paper are printed in PostScript points.
- -p paper
- Specify the name of the paper about which informations are asked.
- -d
- Use
the default builtin paper name.
- -a
- Consider all known papers names.
- -z
- If the
paper name is unknown, print it but issue a message on the standard error
and exit with a non-zero code.
- -n
- Print the name of the paper.
- -N
- Print the
name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
- -s
- Print the size (width
followed by height) of the paper.
- -w
- Print the width of the paper.
- -h
- Print
the height of the paper.
- -c
- Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
- -m
- Use
millimetres as unit for paper size.
- -i
- Use inches as unit for paper size.
- PAPERSIZE
- Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize
file contains.
- PAPERCONF
- Full path to a file containing the paper size to
use.
- ${prefix}/etc/papersize
- Contains the name of the system-wide default
paper size to be used if the PAPERSIZE and PAPERCONF variables are not
set.
Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>
papersize(5)
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