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PAPERCONF(1) General Commands Manual PAPERCONF(1)

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 argu-
ments, paperconf prints the name of the system- or user-specified paper, obtained by look-
ing in order at the PAPERSIZE environment variable, at the contents of the file specified
by the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents of the file /etc/papersize , con-
sulting the values controlled by the LC_PAPER locale setting, or by using letter as a
fall-back value if none of the other alternatives are successful. 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
PAPERSIZE Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize file contains.

PAPERCONF 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 and PAPERCONF variables are not set.

AUTHOR
Yves Arrouye <arrouye AT debian.org>