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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:51:02 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man -t odd page size
Message-ID:  <20081023035102.469988aa.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810221902330.5789@wonkity.com>
References:  <200810222156.20959.gnemmi@gmail.com> <20081023023840.bdacc8b9.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0810221902330.5789@wonkity.com>

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:19:16 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> But groff can do A4.  Just as a first pass:
> 
> zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - tmp.pdf
> 
> It produces the right media size in the PS file, but I can't really test 
> it because I don't have any A4 paper.

I checked it - excellent. The formatting of the structural elements
works fine, the result is printable.

I've just finished ~/bin/man2pdf. :-)



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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