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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-02-16 19:25:08 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-02-16 19:25:08 +0000 |
commit | 48bdc1675c48cf0e776eccb67e28c39e7a2f2246 (patch) | |
tree | c8b4074e1b8b6644ca276c4aa7a07af2e537f482 /Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi | |
parent | 427f333a60437b2607c826d72df6f8693a9d2a65 (diff) |
add nopaper size for -t
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@12172 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi index 08e2cca1b6d..9ea8e42c308 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ @settitle Dvips: A DVI-to-PostScript translator @set version 5.97 -@set month-year October 2008 +@set month-year February 2009 @copying This manual documents Dvips version @value{version} @@ -1086,11 +1086,15 @@ which rotates a document by 90 degrees. can use the @samp{-t} option twice, once for the paper type, and once for @samp{landscape}. @item In general, you should not use any @samp{-t} option when -using a @samp{papersize} special, as some @LaTeX{} packages do, e.g., -@samp{hyperref.sty}. -@item The exception is when using a nonstandard paper size that is not +using a @samp{papersize} special, which some @LaTeX{} packages (e.g., +@samp{hyperref}) insert. +@item One exception is when using a nonstandard paper size that is not already defined in @file{config.ps}; in this case, you need to specify @samp{-t@tie{}unknown}. +@item Another exception is when producing multi-page files for further +processing; use @samp{-t@tie{}nopaper} to omit any paper size +information in the output. (If you just have a single page document, +you can use @samp{-E} to get pure EPSF output.) @end itemize @item -T @var{hsize},@var{vsize} @@ -1789,12 +1793,19 @@ comment or two would be okay). Also, some printers want setting the paper size. There is no solution I could find that works for both (except maybe specifying both). +@findex unknown@r{, paper format for @samp{-t}} When using a paper size that is not already defined in @file{config.ps}, you probably want to say @samp{-t@tie{}unknown} on the command line; the @code{unknown} paper size definition in @file{config.ps} has the requisite PostScript incantation to set the PostScript page size, as just described. +@findex nopaper@r{, paper format for @samp{-t}} +If you want no paper size information in the output at all, use +@samp{-t@tie{}nopaper}. This is useful with multi-page output that +will be processed further. If you just have a single page document, +you can use @samp{-E} to get pure EPSF output. + @flindex mkdvipspapers The Perl 5 script @file{contrib/configs/mkdvipspapers} in the distribution directory may help in determining appropriate paper size |