Re: How to tweak PPDs to add new page sizes (perferably via GUI)?

dunklervater@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

-how to manipulate a PPD to add custom page sizes

The page size code is device dependent, so it would be an adaptation
of the existing fragments for the printer.

But there may be extra considerations e.g. in Windows you can't freely
add sizes. You may have to define forms.

Also bear in mind that editing a PPD that's already installed won't
change anything.

* is there any "best" virtual printer driver one should use in these
cases?

The best driver is the right one. Reading back this is for distilling,
so the Distiller driver is the right one. It supports custom sizes if
the driver/application does.

(other than the one that might correspond to the RIP that will be
used.

Yes, if it is going to the RIP directly, that is the only driver to
use. No excuses, RIPs are not generic. But if distilling, it's
Distiller that is the immediate RIP.
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