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PAPERSIZE(5)                             File Formats Manual                            PAPERSIZE(5)

NAME
       papersize - specify preferred paper size

SYNOPSYS
       /etc/papersize

DESCRIPTION
       The  papersize  file is used to specify the preferred paper size to use by available commands
       and programs generating documents.

       The format of this file is extremely simple: whitespace and anything starting with `#' is ig‐
       nored, and the name of the paper is the first string found; the case in the name of the paper
       does not import (see CAVEATS section however).

PAPER NAMES
       The following names are commonly understood by programs: a3, a4, a5, b5, letter, legal, exec‐
       utive, note and 11x17.

       Additional paper names that one may encounter are: a0, a1, a2, a6, a7, a8, a9, a10,  b0,  b1,
       b2,  b3,  b4, tabloid, statement, note, halfletter, halfexecutive, folio, quarto, ledger, ar‐
       chA, archB, archC, archD, archE, flsa, flse, csheet, dsheet, esheet and 10x14.

       The value of the papersize file can be overridden by looking in order at the PAPERSIZE  envi‐
       ronment  variable,  then  at  the contents of the file specified by the PAPERCONF environment
       variable.  If the papersize file does not exist, programs using the paper library default  to
       using letter as a fall-back value

CAVEATS
       This  manual page documents the format of the papersize file that is read by the libpaper li‐
       brary.  Some programs that read this file do not yet use the library and may have trouble ig‐
       noring whitespace and comments in the file; they may also require that the paper names use  a
       specific capitalization.

DOCUMENTATION
       Yves Arrouye <arrouye AT debian.org>

SEE ALSO
       paperconf(1)
       paperconfig(8)



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