<br><b><i>Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hello Poti,<br><br>Regarding paper sizes: it is true that the default paper size is <br>included in the .fmt files. Assuming you don't have to simultaneously<br>both a4 and letter, you should build the .fmt's with the one you need<br>and include them on your DVD as files like:<br>texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdftex.fmt<br>texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt<br><br></blockquote>I mentioned posting these files in 'Running Live - no access to C drive,' but<br> maybe they are more appropriate here, Intending to make all the formats that <br>might be needed by another user, I made the following changes in the files <br>indicated:<br> c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-var/dvipdfm/config/config<br>in dvipdfm<br>I changed<br>% Set default paper size here<br>p
letter<br>----------------------------------------------<br>in c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-var/dvips/config/config.ps<br>I moved <br>@ letterSize 8.5in 11in<br>@+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: Letter<br><br>@ letter 8.5in 11in<br>@+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: Letter<br>@+ %%BeginPaperSize: Letter<br>@+ letter<br>@+ %%EndPaperSize<br><br>before<br>% 0 0 595 842 is the right bounding box that most applications expect<br>% for A4. Since dvips always rounds up, choose something slightly smaller.<br>----------------------------------<br>in c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex<br>I changed <br>\pdfpagewidth=8.5 true in<br>\pdfpageheight=11 true in<br>-----------------------------------<br>in c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-var/xdvi/XDvi<br>*paper: letter<br>-----------------------------------<br>I then ran <br>c:\localtexmf\dvipdfm\config>fmtutil.exe --all<br><br>and moved the resulting texmf-var to the DVD root and changed <br>texmf-var to
point to it. I am still having some problems that I suspect<br>are pertinent to others trying to run with no C: drive, as mentioned<br>in the other thread, but I presume this procedure took care of all my <br>paper sizes? <br><br><br><p> 
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