How to convert from US Letter to A4 format?

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From: Will Estes
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:54

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I'm faced with a small conversion problem, and I am hoping that the
Postscript experts here can help me.  I routinely download technical
documents from ftp servers in US Letter format.  When I send these to
european friends in countries that are standardized on the A4 page size, 
it causes real problems for them when they print the postscript file.

The question is - short of re-specifying the output to A4 from a source
document - how do I convert an existing postscript file that uses US
Letter page format to A4?  Is there any sequence of steps that they
can take to lessen their problems?

One idea: if there were some hack that could be made to the existing
Postscript output to scale down the entire page image, then it could
be made to fit on the A4 page.  Any ideas on how to do this or other
things to solve this problem?

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Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com

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