[OS X TeX] magnification

[juan tolosa]

Thank you, Herb, 
Your advice worked, and I could change the default to pdfTeX instead of pdfLaTex.

Thank you also Ross, for your assistance.

Also, thanks to Akira Kakuto, from texworks at tug.org,
the problem was found. 

He analized both the TeXworks output in the mac, and the one in MikTeX, looked at the log files,
and determined the following. In case this might be helpful to others, here is the problem he found:

MikTeX:
You are using the default paper size a4.
Paper size is also magnified (seems strange).

Mac:
You are using the default paper size letter.
Paper size is not magnified (same here on Windows, TL2014/dev, pdfTeX-1.40.15).

And here is the solution he suggested, which worked perfectly well:

Try

%Sample file
%  
%
\magnification\magstep3
\pdfpagewidth=210 true mm
\pdfpageheight=297 true mm
\pdfhorigin=1 true in
\pdfvorigin=1 true in
... ...
\bye







On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:29 PM, juan tolosa wrote:

> Thank you, Herb. I'll check both.
>      Juan
> 
> On Mar 1, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:39 PM, juan tolosa <juantolo at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> No, I haven't chosen that at the top of the list. On the TeX shop window, at the top, you can pick how you want to typeset the document, similar to the choices for TeX Shop in the MaC. The default is indeed pdflatex, and I have to change it to pdftex every time I typeset a document (unlike the MaC TeX shop, for which I can declare what I want to be the default.
>>> 
>>> Do you know of any active MikTeX list?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>>                  Juan
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Googling MikTeX one of the items brought me to some information on MikTeX Lists at <http://miktex.org/list>.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure you can change the default tool in TeXworks; it's in TeXworks->Preferences-Typesetting on the Mac and at the corresponding Preferences location under Windows.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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