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From: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How can I offset output from dvips
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.002116.10704@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Nov 90 00:21:16 GMT
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In article <2424@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> ajcd@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) writes:
>
>This is one of the nice things about dvips---it is really easy to set up
>configurations for multiple printers using the config.printer files.
>

I was rather worried that it didn't seem possible with dvips to specify
the paper size very precisely: just a4, letter, etc.

What about if I am printing a tiny booklet, say with pages only 3
inches wide, and 4 inches high, and sending output to bromide.  I don't
want to pay for an a4 page area of bromide for each of my 3x4 pages.
In DVItoPS you can specify the paper size exactly, if it isn't one of
the standard preset sizes, and this seems to me desirable.

Is there some simple way to do this with dvips?  Without needing to
know PostScript, preferably?

Dominik