Re: problems with dvips papertype

Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:00:15PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use teTeX 2.0.2. The pdvips command is giving me a headache.
> Whatever I use for papertype:
> 
>    dvips -t a4 ....
>    dvips -t a4size ...
>    dvips -t "a4" ...
>    dvips -t "A4" ...
>    dvips -t "A4size" ...
> 
> the command will always say
> 
>    dvips: no match for papersize
> 
> and generate output in letter-papertype.
> 
> What is the magic here?

It seems your config.ps doesn't define a4 - mine does.
Take a look in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps
or locate it with 
  kpsewhich -format='dvips config' config.ps

Hans

PS! I have entries like:

@ A4size 210mm 297mm
@+ %%PaperSize: A4

@ a4 210mm 297mm
@+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
@+ %%BeginPaperSize: a4
@+ a4
@+ %%EndPaperSize
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