PAPERCONF(1)                General Commands Manual               PAPERCONF(1)



NAME
       paperconf - print paper configuration information

SYNOPSIS
       paperconf  [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h
       ] [ -c | -m | -i ]

DESCRIPTION
       paperconf prints information about a given paper.  The information that
       can  be  obtained  is  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  speci-
       fied  by  the  PAPERCONF  environment  variable,  at  the  contents  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 information is asked.

       -d     Use the default builtin paper name.

       -a     Consider all known paper 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.

AUTHOR
       Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>

SEE ALSO
       papersize(5)




                                 24 April 2001                    PAPERCONF(1)
