From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 23:56:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91861106567A for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415378FC0A for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:56:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so15336ywe.13 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:56:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; bh=XYaYCWYwUfmoS28Puxd8xCTML0GXzuCryQgNjqXxbFU=; b=nLVoswBIgeA/69taFB0zIqdogeRaSOex10Mg8oOwXuN2F93sh0m3aYKGMdqg8q+IiY hVAlAoPnZyxzbTg72uPb/PgJVHGCt4GAjnqf8LZyqq4GrRhDHRvX5DYtyEQKq2mgb8/r ShjTXPnFS7eEjSMfgrFI4AllHuoF3Mlxwk57w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=dvq5S+GucTeSZH7MZtEON5dSLLxIEeYvuMcOCwD6cSriGDClHDrJguf7jNv4jj/E0d D/5d4MA4YOIEFoxE0r5RpT33I3YufL/LEDhGKEyhHPPFZVg3sZFphJALsJY4cFpe2YTB 0yn70zof4MzGIN5dlpVZAu6ESEixiU8Iazxdk= Received: by 10.70.84.13 with SMTP id h13mr12534763wxb.75.1224719789250; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 190-177-219-62.speedy.com.ar ([190.177.219.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h35sm13940425wxd.3.2008.10.22.16.56.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:56:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:56:20 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810222156.20959.gnemmi@gmail.com> Subject: man -t odd page size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:56:30 -0000 Hello there my friends. I happen to have this little problem and was wondering if somebody could have a quick answer. I'm fed up of reading man pages on my monitor, so I begun to turn them into pdf. In order to do so i just issue the following command: "man -t 3 getopt | ps2pdf14 - > man_getopt" It _does_ work, but the problem is that "man -t" ( -t == /usr/bin/groff -S -man) formats the man page in a really non-standart page size ( %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 792 0 () () ... << /PageSize [ 612 792 ] ) which .. well .. sucks .. Is there an easy way to get man to format the man page using plain good ISO 216 standard A4 page size? In case you are wondering: yes, google didn't help and yes, the man pages for groff, troff, nroff, ditroff, huge list of etceteras didn't help either. and on a side note: will we ever get to see ISO 216 A4 as the default choice for output instead of not-standard, only usefull in the US but useless in the rest of the whole world "letter" page size and the likes??? Regards -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi