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Q5005
Question
I used gv 3.5.8 (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every printed page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than A4 paper?
Answer
This seems to be an effect of using ghostview. Although the PostScript is generated for A4 pages, the size of the page images is such that they should fit on a letter page (they are shorter than would normally be used on A4 paper). If the PostScript file is sent directly to a PostScript printer, there is no problem. An alternative is to get hold of the psutils toolset, which is available from ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/psutils/psutils.tar.gz. It contains utilities for extracting pages (which can be useful for double-sided printing) and for resizing pages. If you resize from A4 to letter the text shrinks a bit, but should then be printable via ghostview.
FAQ / Miscellaneous / Q5005