From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Wed 11 Aug 1999 - 15:58:06 IST
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
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