Ghostscript - virtual printer output is only A4 - printing

I'm using ghostscript for Virtual Printer and I installed it according to this manual: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPSprinter.html
The problem is, that it prints everything in A4 no matter how big document is. (or what I set in dialog box). I need to print documents from MS Word sometimes in A3 and sometimes in A4, so I didn't set the default paper size.
My setting right now is like this:
-Ic:\gs\gs8.14\lib;c:\gs\fonts
-sDEVICE=mswinpr2
-dNoCancel
-dNOPAUSE
-dSAFER
I tried it with
-sPAPERSIZE=A4
and
-sPAPERSIZE=A4
-sPAPERSIZE=A3
but didn't get any positive result.
Do you have any idea how to set it?
Thanks, Laura


Use this:
-sPAPERSIZE=a4
-sPAPERSIZE=a3
(a instead of A)

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