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I posted asking for help using legal size paper (8.5in by 14in) with
TeX.  I was pleased to receive two quick and accurate answers.
Below is information on printing on legal size paper with both the
older version of dvips and the newest available version.  The
keeper of the FAQ (Pascal) might want to include this information.  

Here is the most specific answer, sent to me by William Gilbert
(wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca), who got the information from Scott
Willingham (willing@icsl.ucla.edu).  This applies to dvips 5.47, the
version released by Tom Rokicki last summer for the NeXT.  

1) First run dvips with the "-t legal" option, saving the PS to a file.
2) Edit the PS file:
	-replace the line %%EndComments with the three lines:
		%%DocumentPaperSizes: Legal
		%%EndComments
		%%PaperSize: Legal

I have been using the latest version, dvips 5.483, which requires a
slightly different fix.  With that version, specify legal size paper by
using \special{papersize=8.5in,14in} in your .tex file.  You don't need
to specify the "-t legal" option on dvips anymore.  But you will need
to modify the config.ps that is included with dvips 5.483 distribution,
as described below in mail from Tomas Rokicki (the author of TeXview
and dvips). 

> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 11:07:55 PDT
> From: Tomas G. Rokicki
> To: cartley@sengbush.Mines.Colorado.EDU
> Subject: Re:  legal size paper and dvips (NeXT)
> 
> What you need to do is change the configuration file for the paper  
size
> stuff to read
> 
> %%PaperSize: Legal
> 
> instead of
> 
> %%BeginPaperSize: Legal
> legal 
> %%EndPaper
> 
> The spooler is supposed to be smart enough to do this for you, but I
> guess the one on the NeXT isn't that smart.
> 
> I'll make sure this is fixed in the distributed dvips . . .
> 
> -tom
> 
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Craig Artley    cartley@mines.colorado.edu    (303) 273-3557
Geophysics Dept., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401