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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:51:02 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Cc: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: man -t odd page size
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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. :-)



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