[XeTeX] Papersizes

[Musa Furber]

(Time to get swatted for top-posting.)

For whatever it's worth:

Setting the page size works fine for me with XeLaTeX. I use memoir, 
which includes page layout similar to the geometry package.

I set the paper size using the following:

###############
\setstocksize{23cm}{13.3cm} % me

\settrimmedsize{23cm}{13.3cm}{*}
\settypeblocksize{41\onelineskip}{21pc}{*}
\setlength{\trimtop}{0pt}
\setlength{\trimedge}{\stockwidth}
\addtolength{\trimedge}{-\paperwidth}
\setlrmargins{*}{3.1cm}{*}
\setulmargins{4.5\onelineskip}{*}{*} % 1.9cm

\setheadfoot{\onelineskip}{3\onelineskip}
%\setheaderspaces{\onelineskip}{*}{*} % original values
\setheaderspaces{*}{1\onelineskip}{*} % mine, sinced I have headings
%
\setmarginnotes{17pt}{51pt}{\onelineskip}
###############

When XeLaTeX encounters the \checkandfixthelayout command, it produces 
the following output:

###############
Stock height and width: 654.41338pt by 378.42174pt
Top and edge trims: 0.0pt and 0.0pt
Page height and width: 654.41338pt by 378.42174pt
Text height and width: 502.0pt by 252.0pt
Spine and edge margins: 38.21803pt and 88.2037pt
Upper and lower margins: 54.0pt and 98.41338pt
Headheight and headsep: 12.0pt and 12.0pt
Footskip: 36.0pt
Columnsep and columnseprule: 10.0pt and 0.0pt
Marginparsep and marginparwidth: 17.0pt and 51.0pt
###############

I then invoke XeLaTeX again with the proper page dimensions (taken from 
the above):

###############
xelatex -papersize=378.421,654.41338 foobar.tex
###############

(Yes, I know: I could have have just calculated the values ahead of 
time. But I'm lazy, so I let memoir do it for me.)

When I open the resulting PDF in Preview, the Document Info dialog 
reports that the dimensions for Media Box and Crop Box are both 5.26 x 
9.05 inches.

Regards,
Musa

On 13 Oct 2004, at 14:46, Stephen Moye wrote:

> On a different note, I seem to be experiencing problems using this 
> form of -papersize
>
> -papersize=1008pt,612pt
>
> It does not seem to make any difference -- the page size is still 
> letter. However the named options, such as 'b5' seem to work without a 
> hitch.
>
> Help!! :>}
>
> S
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