Override page size??

Hello,
I am creating postscript files to be converted into pdfx. They will then be plotted on roll plotters. In that context page size doesn't really have any meaning. I know how big my document is and I would like the page size to be the size of the document, but unfortunately without defining a new custom page every time that doesn't seem to be possible.
I would like to define a really big page, say 36x96 inches, and after printing to it programmatically put append a bounding box onto the ps file. Is that possible, or are there other options? I know almost nothing about postscript, but am a competent programmer.
cheers,
Marc Pelletier

Hi,
I see the code and comment in os_stat.c. I tried GetDiskFreeSpace on my XP system,
running NTFS. It said I have a sector size of 512 bytes. It also said I have 8 sectors per cluster,
which means that my cluster size is 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes.
That matches the results from fsutil:
C:\>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo d:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xe6f4b5adf4b57ffb
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x000000000b4d4c1b
Total Clusters : 0x000000000169a983
Free Clusters : 0x000000000048fc65
Total Reserved : 0x00000000000002f0
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x000000001b14c000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000010
Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000000db140
Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000393540
NTFS volumes often report 512B clusters Could it be that the engineer who wrote this comment confused cluster size with
sector size, or perhaps tested on a small partition?
References:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364935(VS.85).aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314878
Thanks,
Eric

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