© Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org, 2013-2025
https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper

The libpaper package enables users to indicate their preferred paper size, provides the paper utility to find the user's preferred default paper size and give information about known sizes, and specifies system-wide and per-user paper size catalogues (see “man paperspecs”).

See “man paper” for information about how to set the default paper size.

The libpaper package is distributed under the MIT license (if built without --enable-relocatable; see the file COPYING-MIT), or the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1, or, at your option, any later version (if built with --enable-relocatable; see the file COPYING), with the exception of the files listed below.

• The file paperspecs is in the public domain.
• The paper program is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence version 3, or, at your option, any later version. See the file COPYING-GPL-3.
• The paperconf program by Yyes Arrouye and Adrian Bunk is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence version 2.

Libpaper was developed by Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org, based on the design of libpaper by Yves Arrouye yves@debian.org, improved by Adrian Bunk bunk@fs.tum.de. It also supersedes the earlier “paper” package developed by Reuben Thomas.

The paperconf program is supplied for backwards-compatibility with libpaper version 1. It is deprecated, and will be removed in future.

To build, you need a POSIX.1-2008 environment and C99 compiler. Run:

./configure --enable-relocatable && make && [sudo] make install

The --enable-relocatable option builds libpaper as a relocatable package that can be copied anywhere once built and installed. Note that if you do not use it, the tests (“make check”) will not work.

For installation options, see ./configure --help; see INSTALL for more information.

To build from git, you need the following extra programs installed: git, automake, autoconf, help2man.

Having cloned the repository, run: ./bootstrap, and follow the instructions for building from source.