[OS X TeX] TeXShop previews in LANDSCAPE mode

[Morten Høgholm]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:55:43 +0200, Maarten Sneep  
<maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 14-jul-2006, at 21:44, AES wrote:
>
>>> \pdfpagewidth=10 true in
>>> \pdfpageheight=7 true in
>>>
>>> at the top of your file.
>>
>>      Good, thanks (and any other pdftex stuff?)
>
> I seem to recall that there were some issues with true measures,  
> magsteps and pdftex. It seems that
>
> - the magn is frozen as soon as the first code is written to the pdf file
> - the magn is applied to everything
>
> (found those statements by Hans Hagen after some Googling). You  
> certainly need to set the \pdfpage{width|height} parameters, but the  
> true may or may not have the intended effect. These messages were  
> specifically about 1.20, the issue may have been resolved by now.

Take a look at the thread starting at  
<http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2006-February/002001.html>.
-- 
Morten
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