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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Format for printing
Redirecting to docbook-apps... On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:53:59PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote: > Hello. I've written two manuals now with DocBook and find it very easy (and > sensible) to work with. My problems stem from converting the SGML to > something suitable for printing. Converting to HTML works perfectly. > > I use the Jade wrapper docbook2ps to convert my manual to PS for printing. > This works wel and the result can be viewed with ghostview and prints okay. > Well, mostly okay. It seems that the PS that Jade outputs uses a paper size > of A4. When printed on my printer using US Letter sized paper, the page > heading is cut off and I get an extra large bottom margin. The same can be > seen if I set ghostview to Letter instead of autodetect. > > I cannot find any command lines options to Jade or the wrapper for setting the > paper size. After a bit of poking around, I found the place in the > appropriate stylesheet where the default paper size is set. I know this is > not the proper way to customize the output, but for a quick hack I set the > stylesheet to use Letter all the time. Unfortunately, my output is still > using A4 paper size. In the DSSSL stylesheets, inside of the 'print' subdirectory, there is a file called 'dbparam.dsl'. Inside of there you will find a setting for paper-type. The correct way to set this would be to create a customization layer and include the following: (define %paper-type% "USletter") That should work fine. Examples of a customization layer can be found on: http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch04.html in section 4.3.8.1 and 4.3.8.2.2. > How can I change this? Is there a better forum to ask this in? Thanks! Yes, the docbook-apps list is the appropriate place for questions about *processing* DocBook documents. The 'docbook' list is for discussion of DocBook itself (the DTD, elements, etc.) > -- > --John Gruenenfelder Research Assistant, Steward Observatory, U of Arizona > johng@as.arizona.edu Regards, Dan -- Dan York, Director of Training, Network Server Solutions Group Mitel Networks Corporation dan_york@mitel.com Ph: +1-613-751-4401 Cell: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-564-7739 150 Metcalfe Street, Suite 1500, Ottawa,ON K2P 1P1 Canada http://www.e-smith.com/ http://www.mitel.com/sme/
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