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diff --git a/Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/README b/Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2b451f7a552 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/README @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +The paper library and accompanying files are intended to provide a simple +way for applications to take actions based on a system- or user-specified +paper size. + +This release is quite minimal, its purpose being to provide really basic +functions (obtaining the system paper name and getting the height and +width of a given kond of paper) that applications can immediately +integrate. +A more complete library, using a capabilities file for papers (giving, +in addition to the size, informations like paper weigth, color, etc) +will be released later. + +See the sources for paperconf(1) in src/paper.c for how to use the library. + +Adding new paper sizes +====================== + +If a paper format is missing, one need to add it to lib/paperspecs. The +format of this file is one paper format per line, with the name of the +format, the width and height of the format separated with space. You +may add an option measurement unit among in, ft, pt, m, dm, cm, mm or you +may leave the default unit of "point". By defaults the width and height +are specified in the "point" unit, which is 1/72 inch (2.54 cm). This +is the A4 entry: + + a4 210 297 mm + +that was previously written as + + a4 595 842 + +The sizes here are 595 points / 72 points pr inch * 2.54 cm per +inch = 20.99 cm and 842/72*2.54 = 29.70 cm. The A4 format +is 210x297 mm so this is a good approximation. (Source: +<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4_paper_size>) + +Copyright (C) Yves Arrouye <yves@debian.org>, 1996 + Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> , 2000 + |