[XeTeX] wrong paper size (geometry and truedimen)
Will Robertson
wspr81 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 26 14:02:30 CEST 2006
On 26/06/2006, at 1:24 , Jonathan Kew wrote:
> However, there may be another issue as well: the positioning of the
> output on the paper, when magnification is used. The question is
> whether the default origin of the printed page, in the absence of
> \hoffset or \voffset, should stay at (1in, 1in) from the top left of
> the paper, or if this position should be subject to magnification. It
> is not clear to me what the "correct" TeX behavior would be, as this
> is not defined strictly by TeX but by output driver conventions.
There was a fair amount of controversy here about what pdfTeX does to
resolve this question. I think that pdfTeX did the right thing: they
redefined the origin to be (0,0) on the page so that magnification
doesn't affect it. I'd suggest XeTeX follows pdfTeX's lead here.
This then requires a bit of a change to pdftex.ini to get consistent
results, but it's certainly a better solution than having your
offsets messed up by \mag.
See the thread on c.t.t. earlier this year:
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/b7fb9ed23325c958>
(that's the solution, the whole thread is a little convoluted.)
Will
P.S. I hope I got those details correct; I'm about to cook dinner and
it's all a little hazy in my memory!
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