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

[John Hawkinson]

Panteck <address@hidden> wrote on Tue, 30 May 2006
at 12:15:25 -0700 in <address@hidden>:

> Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but I've been busy with work and
> haven't had time to read the list lately :)

Well, I think I mentioned on lilypond-devel that I would finall have
time to work on this stuff again at the end of may, which is basically
now :)

> I haven't fully tested this, but on Windows XP with Lilypond 2.9, just
> changing paper.scm to include the following line works for me:
> 
> ("archA" . (cons (* 9.0 in) (* 12.0 in)))
> 
> archA (9x12) and archB (12x18) are the ISO names for these paper sizes. 
> Adobe respects these values, and Lilypond seems to have no difficulty with
> them either (however, I don't usually mess with margins, so it's possible
> that it only works with the default margin values).

Yeah, I also found those names eventually in some obscure Adobe document.
So that's probably sufficient for Acrobat. It's not sufficient
for printers, though, if you want them to select the right paper size,
because printers don't read comments (but ps2pdf and distill do).

--jhawk