[XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

[Karljurgen Feuerherm]

Hello

Well, that's interesting. My Memoir isn't from the Stone Age, it's from
TeXLive 2011. And although the typesetting was B5, the (pdf) paper
wasn't.

But I had "B5". "b5paper" seems to have worked. Looking at the
documentation again, I see no plain "B5" so I must have put that due to
something I was doing in the past and unconsciously didn't change. Makes
me wonder why it 'partially' worked, then. Sigh.

Thanks for this!

K

>>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at  4:55 PM, in message
<20111105205539.GA13591 at oberdiek.my-fqdn.de>, Heiko Oberdiek
<heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:06:43PM -0400, Karljurgen Feuerherm
wrote:
>
>> Usually, I need to use US letter paper size--but for one document
I'm
>> working on, I want B5. I'm using Memoir for this one, and have set
B5
>> accordingly.
>
> Memoir is already capable to tell the media size to XeTeX and
> it does it automatically:
>
> \newcommand*{\fixpdflayout}{%
>   \pdfpageheight=\the\stockheight
>   \pdfpagewidth=\the\stockwidth
>   \ifxetex\else
>   \ifdim\pdfvorigin=0pt\pdfvorigin=1in\fi
>   \ifdim\pdfhorigin=0pt\pdfhorigin=1in\fi
>   \fi}
> \newcommand*{\fixdvipslayout}{%
>   \AtBeginDvi{\special{papersize=\the\stockwidth,\the\stockheight}}}
>
> \AtBeginDocument{%
>   \ifxetex
>     \fixpdflayout
>   \else
>     \ifpdf
>       \ifnum\pdfoutput<\@ne
>         \fixdvipslayout
>       \else
>         \fixpdflayout
>       \fi
>     \else
>       \fixdvipslayout
>     \fi
>   \fi}
>
> Therefore you do *not* need:
> * setting the media size manually using \pdfpagewidth and
\pdfpageheight,
> * using package geometry,
> * command line options for XeTeX/xdvipdfmx.
>
> A minimal example shows that memoir indeed sets the correct
> paper size:
>
> % File: test.tex
> % Command line: xelatex test.tex
>
> \listfiles
> \documentclass[b5paper]{memoir}
> \begin{document}
> Hello World
> \end{document}
>
>  *File List*
>   memoir.cls    2011/03/06 v3.6j configurable book, report, article
>                 document class
>    ifpdf.sty    2011/01/30 v2.3 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
>  ifxetex.sty    2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
> ifluatex.sty    2010/03/01 v1.3 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
>     etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
>    mem10.clo    2008/01/30 v0.3 memoir class 10pt size option
> mempatch.sty    2009/07/24 v6.0f Patches for memoir class v1.6180339
>  ***********
>
>
> Media size of the generated PDF file is 498.9bp x 708.66bp
> or 176mm x 250mm that is the correct size for B5.
>
> If your memoir comes from the stone age (before XeTeX and its
support),
> then update. Otherwise a minimal example and the command line call
> help in finding the cause of your problem.
>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko Oberdiek
>
>
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