[pdftex] weird page sizes?
Allin Cottrell
cottrell at wfu.edu
Thu Nov 14 13:15:01 CET 2002
I'm now finding (I'm not sure when this started) that I'm getting some
weird page sizes, as reported by Acrobat reader, when using pdflatex,
and I wonder if anyone knows what settings might be responsible.
cat pdftex.cfg...
output_format 1
compress_level 9
decimal_digits 2
horigin 1 true in
vorigin 1 true in
move_chars 2
map pdftex.map
cat foo.tex...
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
Here is some text.
\end{document}
When I do "pdflatex foo.tex" I get a pdf file that shows in Acroread
as having a page size of 7.5" x 11.44". If I replace the "a4paper"
in foo.tex with "letterpaper" the pdf file comes out at 7.63" x 10.76"
If I put explicit page dimensions into pdftex.cfg for one sort of
paper, e.g.
page_width 210 true mm
page_height 297 true mm
then the pdf file comes out right, for that sort of paper -- but
surely I shouldn't have to do that? What can I have hosed?!
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
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