Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Carlos Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Does gs default to DIN A4 in non-US locales? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:38:48 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <20141229053848.307beb07@samara.DOMA> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f4fcdd466dcf73c2e008a0d28a614b04"; logging-data="21242"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ohQlJRGjcoGkkQjLu0s4Sk715Q5Aj7W8=" X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ozVJQzo9gxcbo8VLwSzhw/KPyjU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2141 [luser- -droog , 2014-12-27 23:43] > I've been trying to imagine the correct semantics for selecting > the default dimensions of the graphics for xpost. And the > obvious first question is: how does ghostscript do it? > > So, does gs default to DIN A4 in non-US locales? > Where do you configure that kind of stuff? In Debian, at least, the system default is in /etc/papersize and Ghostscript reads it from there. --