Printing man pages

[Tony Richardson]

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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