The paper library and accompanying files are intended to provide a simple way for applications to take actions based on a system- or user-specified paper size. This release is quite minimal, its purpose being to provide really basic functions (obtaining the system paper name and getting the height and width of a given kond of paper) that applications can immediately integrate. A more complete library, using a capabilities file for papers (giving, in addition to the size, informations like paper weigth, color, etc) will be released later. See the sources for paperconf(1) in src/paper.c for how to use the library. Adding new paper sizes ====================== If a paper format is missing, one need to add it to lib/paperspecs. The format of this file is one paper format per line, with the name of the format, the width and height of the format separated with space. You may add an option measurement unit among in, ft, pt, m, dm, cm, mm or you may leave the default unit of "point". By defaults the width and height are specified in the "point" unit, which is 1/72 inch (2.54 cm). This is the A4 entry: a4 210 297 mm that was previously written as a4 595 842 The sizes here are 595 points / 72 points pr inch * 2.54 cm per inch = 20.99 cm and 842/72*2.54 = 29.70 cm. The A4 format is 210x297 mm so this is a good approximation. (Source: <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4_paper_size>) Copyright (C) Yves Arrouye <yves@debian.org>, 1996 Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> , 2000