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a2ps does not seem to honor
--font-size(or ‘--lines-per-page’, or ‘--chars-per-line’).
This is probably because you used ‘-1’..‘-9’ after the ‘--font-size’. This is wrong, because the options ‘-1’..‘-9’ set the font size (so that there are 80 characters per lines), and many other things (See Page Options, option ‘--font-size’).
Hence ‘a2ps --font-size=12km -4’ is exactly the same thing as ‘a2ps -4’, but is different from ‘a2ps -4 --font-size=12km’. Note that the ‘pure’ options (no side-effects) to specify the number of virtual pages are ‘--columns’ and ‘--rows’.