1PAPERSPECS(5)                 File Formats Manual                PAPERSPECS(5)
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NAME

6       paperspecs - paper size specifications
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DESCRIPTION

9       A CSV format list of the paper size specifications used by paper.  Each
10       line contains the following fields:
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12       NAME,WIDTH,HEIGHT,UNIT
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14       Valid units are: pt (PostScript points), mm, in.
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16       A size may be defined more than once. Only the first definition is nor‐
17       mally  used. This means that the user's paperspecs file overrides sizes
18       in the system file (see below).
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20       Multiple definitions are also used to allow inexact definitions  to  be
21       looked  up  by  size.  For example, the LC_PAPER mechanism available on
22       some systems defines paper sizes in whole numbers of millimetres, which
23       results in a definition for Letter size that does not exactly match the
24       definition in inches.
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FILES

27       /etc/paperspecs
28              System list of paper sizes.
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30       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/paperspecs
31              User's list of paper sizes. This  is  prepended  to  the  system
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BUGS

35       The  CSV  format  is  restricted: quotes are not allowed; hence, fields
36       cannot be escaped.
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CREDITS

39       The  original  list  of  paper  names  came  from  Ghostscript   3.68's
40       gs_stadt.ps.
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AUTHOR

43       Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
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SEE ALSO

46       paper(1)
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