TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ dvips

[bnorton916]

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question. Please redirect me if it is not.

I use dvips at work taking a dvi file to a postscript for printing.

The problem is that it creates a file with this near the end:

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%%BeginPaperSize: Letter
letter
%%EndPaperSize

this causes a problem for ghostview and printing
but if I chamge it to:

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%%PaperSize: Letter

everything works fine.

My knowledge of postscript is slim.

I could
1) write a script to modify my postscript files
2) change dvips source code once I find it

so I was hoping there was an explanation to why dvips produces that postscript code and why it seems to be invalid??

Thanks for any help you can give.

Bill

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bill,

welcome to the forum!

Perhaps force paper size using an option for dvips, such as dvips -P usletter. dvips --help shows options.

kpsewhich config.ps would show you the place of a config file for dvips, could be in texmf-config/dvips/config/config.ps.

Stefan