page size / position

[Robert Howlett]

Jiri Osoba wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm puzzled: I find that pdftex (latest version, as with earlier
versions)
does NOT respect "true" dimensions in pdftex.cfg.  I've got horigin and
vorigin set to 1 truein in my pdftex.cfg, but when I set \mag = 1200 in
my
tex file the horigin and vorigin become 1.2 inches. The page width and
height behave the same way.

Bob