Re: [Groff] (groff+)ghostscript/us letter/paper size problems

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The solution is described here--
> http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2009-September/008565.html
> and consists of passing an explicit "-P-pletter" when formatting
> your groff source; "groff -pletter ..." doesn't make it on my
> system.  Neither did modifying "gs_init.ps" (?)

groff option `-p' doesn't take a parameter; it just tells groff to
also use the `pic' preprocessor while processing the data.

There's another solution described in groff_font(5): Modify the file

  /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/DESC

(or the one in /usr/local/... or whereever) and set up a useful value
for the `papersize' parameter.  A good value is

  papersize  /etc/papersize letter

If the file `/etc/papersize' contains the system wide paper size in
its first line, it is used.  If the file is missing, the next argument
`letter' is taken as a fallback.


    Werner