page size / position

[Jiri Osoba]

Jiri Osoba:

> That's not true - point \hoffset=0,\voffset=0 is horigin and vorigin
> far from upper-left corner of the page. The problem is that this
> point should be (as you can read in The TeXbook) 1in down and 1in
> right from upper-left corner of the paper. This is true if you
> specify horigin=1in and vorigin=1in AND MAG=1000. If you specify any
> mag different from 1000, you will get different "1in" margins. And
> that is the problem, I thing. Horigin and vorigin sould be read
> WITHOUT applying mag.

Han The Thanh:

> one can use the "true" convention for \pdfpagewidth, \pdfpageheight in sources
> as well as in pdftex.cfg. It needs to be in the manual, yes.

Oh - I'm sorry - I'm sorry - I'm sorry - I had this experience from
old pdftex's versions - and I didn't discovered this GREAT change -
thank you, Thanh.

Jiri.