Re: Producing postscript for custom paper size (9x12" manuscript paper)?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

John Hawkinson wrote:

> Err, I'm not sure I follow.
>
> If LilyPond is generating PostScript output, it needs to specify the
> size of the rendered page in the PostScript. Otherwise the PostScript
> is incomplete and cannot be properly processed by printers and by the
> PDF generator both (this is why the LilyPond-produced PDF of a 9x12
> page runs off the edge when viewed in Acrobat Reader). They can only
> guess a paper size, either by their own default, or based on the
> %%DocumentPaperSizes: DSC comment, which is just an advisory comment
> (and, actually, DocumentPaperSizes is deprecated; instead LilyPond
> should be generating a %%DocumentMedia comment, which can include

it does, at least 2.8 does.

> actual page dimensions) and won't actually help with a printer (though
> it might help with Acrobat Distiller or Ghostscript).
>
> I don't think there were any printer-specifics in the code in my
> email.  It should work for any compliant Level 2 or Level 3 Postscript

I thought I saw ManualFeed in there? Doesn't that make sense only for 
certain printers

> Is there a reason you don't want to output the /PageSize info?

No, there's not. I'll gladly consider well written patches to deal with 
arbitrary paper sizes. The relevant code is in paper.scm ; there needs 
to be variant of

  set-paper-size

which can deal with dimensions, eg. of the form (set-paper-size '((9 . 
in) (12 . in)) 'landscape)

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