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Re: Printing man pages
- From: Tony Richardson <richardson at evansville dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:08:03 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Printing man pages
- References: <20060302065638.GA1528@home>
George <d1945 <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:
> Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using:
>
> man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf
>
> which, by default, is actually
>
> /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf
>
> results in a fairly unattractive PDF file. The man page title is
> dropped from the output, and the top margin is borked.
Sounds like it might be an incorrect media size setting.
The default groff PostScript media size is A4. Changing the
papersize setting in /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps/DESC
to "letter" may help.
Tony Richardson
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