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From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>
Subject: Re: Agenda printing: org-agenda-write doesn't use ps-paper-type
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:31:33 +0200
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Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> 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.
>
> This is how I try to print it:
>
> (org-agenda-write "/home/myles/tmp/agenda.pdf" nil nil "*Org Agenda(a)*")

org-agenda-write uses ps-print to do the work so setting ps-paper-type
should indeed help.

> and setting this doesn't fix it either:
>
> (eval-after-load "ps-print"
>   '(setq ps-paper-type 'a4))
>

Have you tried setting this variable with the custom interface, i.e. M-x
customize-variable RET ps-paper-type RET?

HTH
Christian
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Christian Egli
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