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 nor-
mally 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 re-
sults 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 can-
not 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)
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