[tex-live] paper size special

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-05-29 0:58 GMT+02:00 David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>:

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> On 28 May 2016 at 23:47, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am skeptical too. If I prepare a document to be printed on my office
>> printer, I use A4. However, I prepare more frequently books and leaflets
>> and in such cases A4 is really rare, the crop size is usuall A5, B5, C6 or
>> even a nonstandard size. And the media size must include the area for a
>> bleed box and for the crop marks. I am afraid LaTeX itself cannot do all
>> this, a package for layout definition will always be needed. This is why I
>> developed zwpagelayout because even geometry does not do all what I need.
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> yes but I'd like to make it easier for your package to work, or at least
> easier to document how it works.
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> You do
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> \AtBeginDocument{\ifcaseZWdriver \or
>    \pdfpagewidth\paperwidth \pdfpageheight\paperheight
> \else
>    \special{papersize=\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight}\fi}
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> but hyperref and geometry use \AtBeginDvi  (or \AtBeginShipoutFirst) so
> the special they insert will come before the one you insert, even if the
> package is used later.
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> so that means if a document uses hyperref and zwpagelayout then the
> hyperref special is first so if the dvi file is processed with dvips
> hyperref determines the page size and if the same dvi file is processed
> with dvipdfm then zwpagelayout determines the page size.
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> I would like there to be a documented way to avoid that and have the same
> markup have the same effect on both drivers.
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Yes, it will be useful.


Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz



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