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From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Agenda printing: org-agenda-write doesn't use ps-paper-type
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:57:57 +0100
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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