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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:54:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A0 poster w/troff
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For viewing with page, the simplest way is to add a line of the form

	%%BoundingBox: 0 0 w h

where the width and height are in pixels (multiply by 72) before the
second line of the PostScript output (dpost) and give page the -b
option.

On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:43 AM, cej@gli.cas.cz wrote:

> this:
>
> .pl 46.8i
> .ll 33.1i
> .ps 144
> Hello, world!
>
> produces a big font text, but on A4 page,
> as viewed in 'page'
> bbox is wrong, in foo.ps after running
>
> troff -ms foo | dpost | foo.ps
>
> How can I change the default paper size?
> Any hint appreciated,
> cheers,
>
> ++pac.
>
>