paperconf(1)

1PAPERCONF(1)                General Commands Manual               PAPERCONF(1)
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NAME

6       paperconf - print paper configuration informations
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SYNOPSYS

9       paperconf  [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h
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DESCRIPTION

13       paperconf prints informations about a given  paper.   The  informations
14       that can be obtaineed are the name of the paper, its size and its width
15       or height.  When called without arguments, paperconf prints the name of
16       the  system-  or  user-specified paper, obtained by looking in order at
17       the PAPERSIZE environment variable, at the contents of the file  speci‐
18       fied  by  the  PAPERCONF  environment  variable,  at  the  contects  of
19       /etc/papersize or by using letter as a fall-back value if none  of  the
20       other alternatives are successful.  By default, width and height of the
21       paper are printed in PostScript points.
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OPTIONS

24       -p paper
25              Specify the name of  the  paper  about  which  informations  are
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28       -d     Use the default builtin paper name.
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30       -a     Consider all known papers names.
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32       -z     If  the  paper  name is unknown, print it but issue a message on
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35       -n     Print the name of the paper.
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37       -N     Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
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39       -s     Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.
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41       -w     Print the width of the paper.
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43       -h     Print the height of the paper.
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45       -c     Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
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47       -m     Use millimetres as unit for paper size.
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ENVIRONMENT

53       PAPERSIZE           Paper size to use regardless of what the  papersize
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56       PAPERCONF           Full  path  to  a file containing the paper size to
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FILES

60       /etc/papersize      Contains the name of the system-wide default  paper
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AUTHOR

65       Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>
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