paperconf
prints informations about a given paper.
The informations that can be obtaineed are the name of the paper, its
size and its width or height.
When called without arguments,
paperconf
prints the name of the system- or user-specified paper, obtained by
looking in order at the
PAPERSIZE
environment variable, at the contents of the file specified by the
PAPERCONF
environment variable, at the contects of
/etc/papersize
or by using
letter
as a fall-back value if none of the other alternatives are successful.
By default, width and height of the paper are printed in PostScript points.
OPTIONS
-p paper
Specify the name of the
paper
about which informations are asked.
-d
Use the default builtin paper name.
-a
Consider all known papers names.
-z
If the paper name is unknown, print it but issue a message on the
standard error and exit with a non-zero code.
-n
Print the name of the paper.
-N
Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
-s
Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.
-w
Print the width of the paper.
-h
Print the height of the paper.
-c
Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
-m
Use millimetres as unit for paper size.
-i
Use inches as unit for paper size.
ENVIRONMENT
PAPERSIZE
Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize file contains.
PAPERCONF
Full path to a file containing the paper size to use.
FILES
/etc/papersize
Contains the name of the system-wide default paper size to be used
if the
PAPERSIZE
and
PAPERCONF
variables are not set.
