cannot get rid of borders

[Doug Duvall]

To whom it may concern:

 

I am using Red Hat Linux: Linux rhel5-dev 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5PAE

 

“a2ps” version is:  a2ps 4.13

 

 

I am trying to eliminate the borders around the virtual pages. I have the configuration set to no borders:

 

Sheets:

-------

  medium          = Letter, landscape

  page layout     = 2 x 1, rows first

  borders         = no

  file alignment  = page

  interior margin  = 0

 

I also use the following command line:

 

a2ps   --portrait --columns=1 --no-header --margin=0 -l100 --borders=no --output=MyText.ps MyText.txt

 

When I execute the following ghostscript command and open up the file in Acrobat, I get borders:

 

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=MyText.pdf -dNOPAUSE –dBATCH MyText.ps

 

In the “MyText.ps” file that is created by a2ps,  the following function is found:

 

% Function border: prints virtual page border

/border { %def

  gsave                         % print four sides

    0 setgray

    x v get y v get moveto

    0.7 setlinewidth            % of the square

    pw 0 rlineto

    0 ph neg rlineto

    pw neg 0 rlineto

    closepath stroke

  grestore

} bind def

 

If I remove this function from MyText.ps and then use the ghostscript command, no borders are printed.

 

Is this a bug? What am I missing? Shouldn’t the “--borders=” no eliminate the borders around virtual pages? I am sending you the files. “MyText.ps” still has the above function in it.

 

Doug Duvall

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