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NAME

       pagesizes - HylaFAX page size definitions

DESCRIPTION

       The  pagesizes  database  defines  the  page  dimensions and guaranteed
       reproducible areas (GRA) for well-known page sizes.   The  GRA  is  the
       portion  of  the  page that is guaranteed to be imaged during facsimile
       transmission.  This  region  is  typically  less  than  the  full  page
       dimensions  because  of  paper  roller  contacts  and  other mechanical
       aspects of the printing process in a facsimile machine.

       All HylaFAX programs  that  require  page  size  information  read  the
       information  from  this  database  using  a  page size name.  Documents
       should be prepared such that the full page dimensions are employed with
       the imaged area contained within the GRA.

       The  system-wide  default  page  size to use in preparing documents for
       transmission is given by the ``default'' entry in the  database.   (NB:
       the  default  entry  should be placed last so that inverse matches find
       the real page size name and not the default entry.)

       The page size database is an ASCII  file  with  the  following  format.
       Each entry consists of whitespace-separated fields:
       name  abbrev  width  height  gra-width  gra-height  top-margin  left-margin
       Fields have the following interpretation:

       name        the full name for the page size; e.g. ISO A4;

       abbrev      an  abbreviated version of the full name for use in compact
                   listings such as  the  receive  queue  listing  printed  by
                   faxstat(1);

       width       the full width of the page;

       height      the full height of the page;

       gra-width   the width of the GRA;

       gra-height  the height of the GRA;

       top-margin  the  margin between the top of the full page and the top of
                   the GRA;

       left-margin the margin between the left side of the full page the  left
                   side of the GRA.

       The  first two fields must be separated from the subsequent fields by a
       tab character (possibly followed by more whitespace); this is  done  to
       easily  permit  blank  characters  to  be included in names.  Otherwise
       fields can be separated by  any  amount  of  any  kind  of  whitespace.
       Numbers  are  all base 10 and in basic measurement units (BMU); defined
       as 1/1200 x 25.4 millimeters for paper output with a  scale  factor  of
       one.   All fields must be present on a single line; otherwise the entry
       is ignored.   Comments  are  introduced  by  the  ``#''  character  and
       continue to the end the line.

       Page  size  database  lookups are either by name or by page dimensions.
       Lookups by name are done by sequentially scanning the  entries  in  the
       database  for  the  first  entry  that  has  a matching abbreviation or
       substring of the page size name field.  The string  comparisons  ignore
       case  so,  for  example,  ``a4'' would match a full name of ``ISO A4''.
       Lookups by dimension scan the entire database and return the page  with
       the closest dimensions using a straightforward distance metric.  If the
       difference in dimensions of the closest match is greater than 1/2  inch
       on each side, then no page entry is returned for a lookup by dimension.

SEE ALSO

       hylafax-client(1),  faxmail(1),  faxstat(1),  sendfax(1),   sgi2fax(1),
       textfmt(1).

                               December 5, 1994