[buug] Changing PostScript page size

[Joseph Zitt]

rubinson at email.arizona.edu wrote:
>>>Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool 
>>that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins 
>>trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not 
>>seeing how to do it within that.
> 
> 
> Hrm.  That seems odd.  I don't know Framemaker, but the simplest
> solution from my perspective would be to use Framemaker to output at a
> regular 8x11 papersize and then use psresize to change the paper
> size.  psresize is part of the psutils package.  Lots of goodies there
> that you might want to look at.

Thanks. I did, indeed, try psresize (though I found it just after I sent 
the post).  Viewing the result through gv, however, it looks like it 
shrank the first page so that it fit within the smaller space, then 
replaced the other 400 pages with scattered, inscrutable error messages. 
(I can view the original ps file in gv just fine.)

Digging further through psutils, I tried running the original file 
through fixfmps, which is supposed to fix FrameMaker-induced PostScript 
problems (though its development seems to have ended five years before 
the release of the version of FrameMaker that I use). That also gave 
errors similar to those that psresize gave.