[PLUG] ps2pdf for physically large pages

Colin Kuskie ckuskie at dalsemi.com
Tue Jun 11 17:27:08 UTC 2002


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Colin Kuskie wrote:
> 
> > acroread file.pdf
> > 
> > PDF file is cropped to 8.5x11.
> 
>   What size print do you get from the pdf file? I wonder if acroread crops
> it for viewing, but would print it at the original size.

You know, I never tried that (and can't easily, since I overwrote the
file once I learned about the -sPAPERSIZE switch).  When I opened the
file, at the bottom of the viewer it says 8.5x11, so I assumed that
there wasn't any more information.  Maybe I'm a victim of WYSIWIG?

Colin




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