(a2ps.info)Sheet Options

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3.1.3 Sheet Options
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This options specify the general layout, how the sheet should be used.

 -- Option: -M MEDIUM
 -- Option: --medium=MEDIUM
     use output medium MEDIUM.  See the output of 'a2ps --list=media'
     for the list of supported media.  Typical values are 'A3', 'A4',
     'A5', 'B4', 'B5', 'Letter', 'Legal'.

     'A4dj', 'Letterdj' are also defined for Desk Jet owners, since that
     printer needs bigger margins.

     The special MEDIUM 'libpaper' means that you want a2ps to ask the
     library 'libpaper' for the medium to use.  This choice is valid
     only if 'libpaper' was available when a2ps was configured.  See the
     man page of 'paperconf' for more information.

 -- Option: -r
 -- Option: --landscape
     print in landscape mode

 -- Option: -R
 -- Option: --portrait
     print in portrait mode

 -- Option: --columns=NUM
     specify the number of columns of virtual pages per physical page.

 -- Option: --rows=NUM
     specify the number of rows of virtual pages per physical page.

 -- Option: --major=DIRECTION
     specify whether the virtual pages should be first filled in rows
     (DIRECTION = 'rows') or in columns (DIRECTION = 'columns').

 -- Option: -1
     1 x 1 portrait, 80 chars/line, major rows (i.e.  alias for
     '--columns=1 --rows=1 --portrait --chars-per-line=80
     --major=rows').

 -- Option: -2
     2 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -3
     3 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -4
     2 x 2 portrait, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -5
     5 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -6
     3 x 2 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -7
     7 x 1 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -8
     4 x 2 landscape, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -9
     3 x 3 portrait, 80 chars/line, major rows.

 -- Option: -j
 -- Option: --borders=BOOLEAN
     print borders around virtual pages.

 -- Option: -A MODE
 -- Option: --file-align=MODE
     Align separate files according to MODE.  This option allows the
     printing of more than one file on the same page.  MODE can be any
     one of:
     'virtual'
          Each file starts on the next available virtual page (i.e.,
          leave no empty virtuals).

     'rank'
          Each file starts at the beginning of the next row or column
          depending on the '--major' setting.

     'page'
          Each file starts on a new page.

     'sheet'
          Each file starts on a new sheet.  In Simplex mode, this is the
          same as 'page', in Duplex mode, files always start on a front
          side.

     an integer NUM
          Each file starts on a page which is a multiple of NUM plus 1.
          For instance, for '2', the files must start on odd pages.

 -- Option: --margin[=NUM]
     Specify the size of the margin (NUM PostScript points, or 12 points
     without arguments) to leave in the inside (i.e.  left for the front
     side page, and right for the back side).  This is intended to ease
     the binding.