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Subject: Re: Agenda printing: org-agenda-write doesn't use ps-paper-type
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:50:59 +0100
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Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> 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"

If you use a4 sized paper all (or most of) the time, you can set this in
/etc/papersize on Linux.  I think this is what ps2pdf looks at by
default.

I think paperconfig (8) is used to set this property properly.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.0.3-193-g334581