man -t odd page size

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

On Wednesday 22 October 2008 11:19:16 pm Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:56:20 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> Is there an easy way to get man to format the man page using plain good
> >> ISO 216 standard A4 page size?
> >
> > My suggfestion for an attempt would be to first strip any control
> > characters from the output of "man -P cat <entry>" and then pipe
> > it to an ASCII to PDF converter (a2ps, if I remember correctly);
> > this would remove any markups, I know, but would lead to a PDF
> > output using the system's default paper size, A4 (I hope).
>
> 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.
>
> Maybe there's a way to get man(1) to send different options to groff
> than -t, but I don't know it.
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


You just rule ...
Thank you
I mean it .. Thanks a lot :)

My best regards :D

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Gonzalo Nemmi