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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-12-09 19:02:17 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-12-09 19:02:17 +0000
commit9900dc5739227ce82867536080d8dd0a4dbe8ae6 (patch)
treeea983a70b6fbff6bb698f6611c1c8fd1bd299dbf
parent902bab1af9a1bd671a12b31f8fc6c3611b3fcf0b (diff)
best match on paper sizes
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@2657 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi10
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog
index e6f525720d6..32d9fe70faf 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog
+++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+2006-12-09 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
+
+ * dvips.texi (Config file paper sizes): best match now. (From Akira.)
+
2006-12-07 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
* Changes made and accumulated by Akira:
-
(1) security problem
-R0 : shell escape and absolute path are allowed
-R1 : shell escape is forbidden and absolute path is allowed
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi
index 9e6bff65a6f..c9fb3d4b8ad 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi
+++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi
@@ -1732,11 +1732,11 @@ For example:
When Dvips has a paper format name given on the command line, it looks
for a match by the @var{name}; when it has a @samp{papersize} special,
-it looks for a match by dimensions. The first match found (in the order
-the paper size information is found in the configuration file) is used.
-If nothing matches, a warning is printed and the first paper size is
-used. The dimensions must match within a quarter of an inch. Landscape
-mode for all paper sizes is automatically supported.
+it looks for a match by dimensions. The best match found (from the
+paper size information in the configuration file) is used. If nothing
+matches, a warning is printed and the first paper size is used. The
+dimensions must match within 5bp. Landscape mode for all paper sizes
+is automatically supported.
If your printer has a command to set a special paper size, then give
dimensions of @samp{0in 0in}; the PostScript code that sets the paper