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From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>
Subject: Re: Agenda printing: org-agenda-write doesn't use ps-paper-type
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:57:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5afc7q2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871u87nwrs.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>


Eric S Fraga writes:

>>> 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.
>
> 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?

Myles

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-12  1:04 Agenda printing: org-agenda-write doesn't use ps-paper-type Myles English
2013-06-12  7:31 ` Christian Egli
2013-06-12 10:06   ` Myles English
2013-06-12 16:01     ` Eric S Fraga
2013-06-12 21:57       ` Myles English [this message]
2013-06-13  7:50         ` Eric S Fraga
2013-06-13 20:39           ` Myles English
2013-06-13 21:59             ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-14  9:03             ` Eric S Fraga
2013-06-13  8:11         ` Christian Egli
2013-06-13 13:32           ` Rainer Stengele
2013-06-13 20:30           ` Myles English
2013-06-14  7:57         ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-06-14 11:41           ` Myles English
2013-06-14 11:51             ` Sebastien Vauban

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