[pdftex] Why are pages smaller with pdflatex?

[Ulle Endriss]

When I use pdflatex as opposed to  latex (with dvips) then the output
generated with pdflatex appears to be down-scaled by around 5% (fonts,
height and width of printed area). (I use acroread and gv for printing,
respectively.) Why is this so and how can I stop it?

The page size produced by latex/dvips is the correct one, that is, the
value chosen for \textwidth matches the actual text width, etc.

Thanks for your help,
Ulle


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