Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@xxxxxxx>]

* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Oct 21. 2001 17:40]:
> I am once again frustrated with printing.  It seems as if something has gone 
> wrong with the paper size or margin settings related to ghostscript.  I 
> believe the problem is related to the postscript files I create locally as 
> opposed to those I download from, for example, www.w3c.org.  If I do 
> something such as 'enscript  rfc3104.txt -o rfc3104.ps;gv rfc3104.ps &' I see 
> that the created postscript file has a very small left margin.  
> 
> I've discovered that most of the default setting on my box are for A4 paper 
> size.  I'm in the US and for reasons beyond my control I am forced to conform 
> to standards which are inconsistent with the rest of the world.  Nonetheless, 
> I would like to be able to print without having to read (or write) a thesis 
> paper on postscript.  the files I've discovered with a default A4 papersize 
> are:
>  
> /etc/a2ps-site.cfg
> /etc/enscript.cfg
> /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/lib/gs_init.ps
> 
> changing the papersize to Letterdj or letter in these does not seem to fix 
> the problem.  I can't seem to identify the configuration setting to correct 
> this problem.  Does anybody know what the problem is, or how I can fix it?

In /etc/rc.config there is an entry called GROFF_PAGESIZE. If you put
that to letter, and run SuSEconfig, does that help?

-- 
Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
 and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort."
                                -- A. P. J.