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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Agenda printing: org-agenda-write doesn't use ps-paper-type
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:57:11 +0200
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Myles English wrote:
> Eric S Fraga writes:
>>>> Myles English <mylesenglish-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>>> Trying to print an agenda to pdf always results in the paper size being
>>>>> US letter even though ps-paper-type is set to a4.
>>
>> Have you checked to see if the postscript version uses the right paper
>> size?  Just in case the ps -> pdf conversion is at fault?  The pdf is
>> created from the ps file.  In any case, both ps and pdf work just fine
>> for me to A4 with ps-paper-type set to 'a4.
>
> Thanks for checking it.  Yes, I had to change this line in
> org-agenda.el:
>
> - (call-process "ps2pdf" nil nil nil
> + (call-process "ps2pdf" nil nil nil "-sPAPERSIZE=a4"
>
> I wonder if we need to allow a set of options to be passed to ps2pdf as
> we do for ps?

And setting that in a custom command?

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
               '("L" "Call list"
                 tags-todo "phone"
                 ((ps-paper-type 'a4))
                 ("~/org-calls.pdf")) t)
#+end_src

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban