[pdftex] page size with pdfjadetex

Allin Cottrell cottrell at wfu.edu
Mon Sep 17 16:13:24 CEST 2001


On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Michel Bovani wrote:

> At 12:10 -0400 17/09/01, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> >No problem with ordinary pdftex, but when I process a document using
> >pdfjadetex acroread is showing a page size of 8.47 x 10.96 inches.
> >The SGML stylesheet calls for US letter paper, and defines that as 8.5
> >x 11.0.  I've tried messing with \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight in
> >my jadetex.cfg (setting these to 8.5 and 11, trying both "in" and
> >"truein" as units) but nothing has made any difference so far.
> >
> >Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
> Jade calls hyperref and hyperref set \pdfpagewidth/height to
> \paperwidth/height and that is done \AtBeginDocument.
>
> So perhaps you have to set \paperwidth and \paperheight in your
> cfg file...

Thanks.  I tried \paperwidth=8.5in (and then \paperwidth=8.5truein) in
jadetex.cfg (and similarly for height) but I get the same results as
before (i.e. 8.47 x 10.96).

Allin Cottrell.




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