On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:09:22 +0000, in message 871tla4d31.fsf@gmail.com,
Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> 
> > Out of curiosity, what does the papersize(5) command show for your
> > system?  It's possible that your system is defaulting to LETTER
> > instead of A4, though that seems quite unlikely.  I ask because I
> > had trouble printing from a SuSE system.  It turned out that the
> > system default was A4, which I hadn't expected.  I set the default
> > to LETTER, and all was well.
> 
> I don't have that command: `papersize' on my system.

ACK!  My apologies; I confused the man pages for the command and
the file.  papersize(5) is about the file /etc/papersize;
paperconf(1) is the command that reads and writes it.  You should
have it; it appears to have been written for Debian.

I still think the key to finding the source of this problem is in
your two Debian systems.  In one, the file displays correctly; in
the other, it doesn't.  Find out where they differ for displaying
PostScript; that's where your problem is most likely to be.

--Dale

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