paperspecs − paper size specifications
A CSV format
list of the paper size specifications used by paper. Each
line contains the following fields:
NAME,WIDTH,HEIGHT,UNIT
Valid units are: pt (PostScript points), mm, in.
A size may be defined more than once. Only the first definition is normally used. This means that the user’s paperspecs file overrides sizes in the system file (see below).
Multiple definitions are also used to allow inexact definitions to be looked up by size. For example, the LC_PAPER mechanism available on some systems defines paper sizes in whole numbers of millimetres, which results in a definition for Letter size that does not exactly match the definition in inches.
/etc/paperspecs
System list of paper sizes.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/paperspecs
User’s list of paper sizes. This is prepended to the system list.
The CSV format is restricted: quotes are not allowed; hence, fields cannot be escaped.
The original list of paper names came from Ghostscript 3.68’s gs_stadt.ps.
Reuben Thomas <[email protected]>
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