[ILUG] paper size...

[kevin lyda]

Lars Hecking spoke thusly:
>> i'm trying to print a "letter" sized .ps file onto an a4 page.
>> it's getting cut at the side.  any idea what options to pass to
>> ghostscript, or other methods, to print at a reduced size?
> 
> Yes. The option is called "RTFM".
>
>     To select a specific paper size, use the command line switch
>
>          -sPAPERSIZE=a_known_paper_size

while bordering on helpful, it's not.  if you do a bit more rtfm'ing
you'll find that the document can override it.  so you can counter the
document's setting by using -dFIXEDMEDIA -sPAPERSIZE=a4 which is great -
the printer won't sit there waiting for you to insert letter sized paper.

this, and other exciting documentation can be found in
/usr/doc/ghostscript-* on a redhat system.

however it will still merrily chop the margin off which makes it
quite difficult to read.

so i'll ask again, what linux utility will scale a postscript file
to 94% of it's normal size?

the document i'm attempting to print:
http://ace.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/Svc-Conf.ps.gz

another manual of interest:
http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2346.html 

thanks,

kevin