How do I print a postscript file generated for (European or ISO-standard) A4 paper?
The ISO standard A4 page is about 0.7 inches longer and 0.2 inches narrower than the American Letter standard page. A4 paper is in use everywhere except the US and Canada, so any postscript file you get from European or Asian collaborators or journals will be in this format. Printers set up for US letter paper will generally chop off the top of the a4 page, rendering about the first 0.5″ of your file invisible. Obviously this is undesirable. Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) has the capability to fit a page of any size into a given paper size. However, acroread cannot read postscript files. What you have to do is first issue the command ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps ps2pdf will convert any postscript file to pdf format (i.e. it will create myfile.pdf above), which is what acroread takes. The -sPAPERSIZE=a4 is essential – otherwise ps2pdf will cut off the top 1/2 inch of each page in exactly the same way as when printing it After running ps2pdf, issue the command acroread myfile.pdf Now
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