[XeTeX] geometry.sty FIX for XeTeX 0.994

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu Jun 8 13:23:57 CEST 2006


On Jun 8, 2006, at 1:42 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>> Howdy,
>>
>> Will xelatex processing really change a pagesize if geometry
>> ``assumes'' it's using pdftex?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I thought the pages size settings had
>> to be the same as those of dvipdfm?
>
> Previously, the only way to control page size was to use \special
> {papersize....}, which is what dvipdfm, dvips, etc also used.
>
>> That seemed to be what the older
>> geometry.cfg forced. Maybe I'm just confused.
>
> Version 0.994 introduced support for \pdfpagewidth and
> \pdfpageheight, which is now the preferred approach.
>
> JK

Howdy,

Thanks for the information... somehow I missed that change in 0.994.  
And it worked!

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)




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