PS2Paper

PS2Paper is a utility to help manage the paper sizes used by the Level 2 PostScript printer driver supplied with RISC OS. Note that it is not required when using the Level 3 PostScript printer drivers from John Tytgat and Martin Würthner, as these handle paper dimensions themselves.

[PS2Paper Screenshot]

Manging the PostScript 2 paper sizes

As standard, the Level 2 drivers don’t handle paper sizes well: they rely on small snippets of Postscript embedded in files deep inside !Printers to pass the dimensions on to the printer, and there are many subtleties to the way in which they work.

PS2Paper is designed to take control and make the paper sizes work as the user expects. It is especially useful when using the Level 2 drivers to generate Postscript files for use with a PDF creator such as PrintPDF and GhostScript.

Download PS2Paper
PS2Paper is released under Version 1.1 of the European Union Public Licence. Its source code can be found on GitHub, and copies can also be obtained from PackMan or the PlingStore.

In order to use PS2Paper, you will require:

  • a minimum of RISC OS 3.10,
  • the 32-bit Shared C Library (version 5.43 or later), which is a standard part of RISC OS 5 and can be obtained for other systems as part of the System Resources download from RISC OS Open Ltd, and
  • the Nested Window Manager, which is a standard part of RISC OS  4, 5 or Six, or can be soft-loaded on RISC OS 3.
ARMv7 OK Iyonix OK PS2Paper 0.11
61 KBytes | 28 July 2020 | 26/32-bit Neutral; ARMv7 OK

Version History

0.10 (29 October 2016)

First beta release, for feedback and comment.

0.11 (28 July 2020)

Update to first beta release, for feedback and comment.