Man page 8 : paperconfig

paperconfig - configure the system default paper size

paperconfig [

R -v, --version ] [

R -h, --help ] [ -p, --paper papername |

--force ]

paperconfig sets the system (or default) paper to be used by tools using the

papersize file. It can either ask interactively for the paper to use or be called non-interactively by scripts.

When the paper size has been changed,

paperconfig notifies other packages of the change by running the scripts in the /etc/libpaper.ddirectory.

R -v, --version

    Print the version of

paperconfig and exit.

R -h, --help

    Print help about usage and exit.

• -p, --paper papername
      Use papernameif possible. If papernameis not a valid paper, print an error message and exit.

--force

    Force interactive selection of the system paper even if the actual paper is a valid one.

PAPERCONF Full path to a file containing the paper size to use; this file will be rewritten with the system paper size.

/etc/papersize

                    Contains the name of the system-wide default paper size to be used if the

PAPERSIZE variable is not set.

/etc/libpaper.d

                    Directory of scripts to run after the paper size has been changed. This package puts no scripts here, but other packages may.

Yves Arrouye <>

R paperconf (1)

R papersize (5)