PAPERCONF

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 24 April 2001
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NAME

paperconf - print paper configuration informations

SYNOPSYS

paperconf [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h ] [ -c | -m | -i ]

DESCRIPTION

paperconf prints informations about a given paper. The informations that can be obtaineed are the name of the paper, its size and its width or height. When called without arguments, paperconf prints the name of the system- or user-specified paper, obtained by looking in that order at the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents of the file specified by the PAPERSIZE environment variable or by using letter as a last chance. By default, width and height of the paper are printed in PostScript points.

OPTIONS

-p paper: Specify the name of the paper about which informations are asked.
-d: Use the default builtin paper name.
-a: Consider all known papers names.
-z: If the paper name is unknown, print it but issue a message on the standard error and exit with a non-zero code.
-n: Print the name of the paper.
-N: Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
-s: Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.
-w: Print the width of the paper.
-h: Print the height of the paper.
-c: Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
-m: Use millimetres as unit for paper size.
-i: Use inches as unit for paper size.

ENVIRONMENT

PAPERCONF: Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize file contains.
PAPERSIZE: Full path to a file containing the paper size to use.

FILES

/etc/papersize: Contains the name of the system-wide default paper size to be used if the PAPERSIZE variable is not set.

AUTHOR

Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>

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