paperspecs

PAPERSPECS(5) File Formats Manual PAPERSPECS(5)

NAME

   paperspecs - paper size specifications

DESCRIPTION

   A CSV format list of the paper size specifications used by paper.  Each line contains the following fields:

   NAME,WIDTH,HEIGHT,UNIT

   Valid units are: pt (PostScript points), mm, in.

   A size may be defined more than once. Only the first definition is normally used. This means that the user's paperspecs file overrides sizes in the system file (see below).

   Multiple  definitions  are  also  used to allow inexact definitions to be looked up by size. For example, the LC_PAPER mechanism available on some systems defines paper sizes in whole
   numbers of millimetres, which results in a definition for Letter size that does not exactly match the definition in inches.

FILES

   /etc/paperspecs
          System list of paper sizes.

   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/paperspecs
          User's list of paper sizes. This is prepended to the system list.

BUGS

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

CREDITS

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

AUTHOR

   Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

SEE ALSO

   paper(1)

                                                                                    11 January 2014                                                                          PAPERSPECS(5)