# papersize(5) - man - phpman

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## 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 overrideen 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@debian.org>>

## SEE ALSO
       [**paperconf**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/paperconf/1/markdown)
       [**paperconfig**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/paperconfig/8/markdown)





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