[comp.text.tex] Setting page parameters for a Lino with dvips

rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (11/29/90)

Since there exist PostScript operators for setting the page size
(setpageparams), you can easily make dvips send this command.  On
the first page of your TeX file, include the special

\special{! 0 0 300 403 setpageparams}

or whatever the appropriate command is.  Alternatively, this
command (just the numbers and setpageparams) can be put into a
header file (say, foo.ps) and included with the -h command line
option or with the

\special{header=foo.ps}

special.

Some notes.  Use this only if you are not using letter, legal,
a4, a3, or ledger, the defined paper types, and give dvips
the option -t foo, where foo is an appropriate name, so that
the default page setup stuff isn't sent.

Darn it all, it is the *spoolers* that are supposed to do this
for us . . .

-tom