Paper sizes

[John Hodgson]

Dear Dominic

My experience (we produce PDFs for publishers ready for press which have to
have an identical physical and logical page size -  which I think Dominic is
aiming for if I've understood him) is that settings within LaTeX seem to
have no effect, neither \page nor \paper settings seem to have any effect
when the file hits the PDF process. The only way we've been able to achieve
the correct is by using the -l parameter in dvipsone (I've never used the
-*P parameter).

Have you checked your settings in Distiller? There is an option to allow the
PostScript file to override Distiller settings somewhere, and you can adjust
the default page size. (This is true of v6.0, I've forgotten it this applies
to earlier versions, I assume it does).

Do you want to send over a sample DVI file to see if we can get it to work?

Best wishes

John
HWA

-----Original Message-----
From: Support for users of Y&Y's TeX system [mailto:YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE]
On Behalf Of Ganz, Frank, SV USA
Sent: 07 October 2004 17:37
To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
Subject: Re: Paper sizes

Dear Dominic,

Are you actually saying that the text is cropped? In other words, the text
isn't positioned correctly after cropping?

If so, there are two ways of going about it:

[1] c:\yandy\dvipsone\dvipsone -l=432*638 -x=<x> -y=<y> sample.dvi

    where <x> and <y> could be determined by simply
    measuring how much the text must be moved to get
    the margins according to specs. They will most
    likely be negative values.

[2] Declare 6" x 9" as a papersize:

        \DeclareOption{booktrim}
           {\setlength\paperheight {9in}%
            \setlength\paperwidth  {6in}}
        \ExecuteOptions{booktrim}
        \endinput

You would want [2] to appear in a file you might call 6x9.sty and call it
with a \usepackage{6x9}. The class file you are using usually defines paper
sizes. You wouldn't want to override any of the standard class and style
files.

Hope this works for you.

Best regards,
Frank




>-----Original Message-----
>From: aqua [mailto:aqua at dlink.org]
>Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:07 AM
>To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
>Subject: Re: Paper sizes
>
>
>Dear John,
>
>Thanks for your email.
>
>I tried the same and I am getting the same results. But my actual page
>was placed in a bigger paper size.
>
>  In PDF Output:
>  _______________
>  |XXXXXXXXXXXXXX|
>  |XXXXXXXXXXXXXX|
>  |XXXXXXXXXXXXXX|
>  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
>  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
>  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
>  |  6 x 9 in  |----------|--> visible in PDF2.667 x 4.778")
> |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
> |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|----> Bigger size (8.6 x 13.7 inches)  |_______
> |______|
>
>Here MMM is my actual Pg size. But my paper size is "XXX".
>
>If needed I can send you a sample PDF file.
>
>Regards
>Dominic
>
>   -------Original Message-------
>   > From: John Hodgson <john at HWA.TO>
>   > Subject: Re: Paper sizes
>   > Sent: 04 Oct 2004 11:31:20
>   >
>   >  Dear Dominic
>   >
>   >  I use
>   >
>   >  dvipsone -d=destinationfile.ps -l=442*663 dvifile.dvi
>   >
>   >  The -l parameters here are for a UK book size 234x156 mm
>   >
>   >  This produces a postscript file which I then distill in Acrobat
>Distiller;
>   >  it comes out exactly the correct size
>   >
>   >  Or have I misunderstood your question??
>   >
>   >  Best wishes
>   >
>   >  John
>   >
>   >  John Hodgson
>   >  HWA Text and Data Management Ltd
>   >  12 Mount Ephraim
>   >  Tunbridge Wells TN4 8AS
>   >  United Kingdom
>   >
>   >  Tel: (+44)(0) 1892 678698
>   >  Fax: (+44)(0) 1892 678697
>   >
>   >  Email john at hwa.to
>   >
>   >  -----Original Message-----
>   >  From: Support for users of Y&Y's TeX system
[mailto:YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE]
   >  On Behalf Of aqua
   >  Sent: 05 October 2004 11:32
   >  To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
   >  Subject: Paper sizes
   >
   >  Hello Group,
   >
   >  I have placed the following messages in TUGIndia, regarding the Page
Sizes
   >  of LaTeX job. They have suggested me to write to Y&Y support directly.
   >  Kindly advice me on this.
   >
   >  I have to get a PAGE SIZE of 6 x 9 inches. If I make the ps like this,
   >
   >    c:\yandy\dvipsone\dvipsone -l=432*638 -*P=432*638 sample.dvi
   >
   >  it is giving on bigger paper size (in PS 8.667 x 13.778 inches), and
in the
   >  PDF generation it is croping on right and top, and showing 6 x 9
inches
   >  exactly.
   >
   >
   >  In PDF Output:
   >  _______________
   >  |XXXXXXXXXXXXXX|
   >  |XXXXXXXXXXXXXX|
   >  |XXXXXXXXXXXXXX|
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
   >  |  6 x 9 in  |----------|--> visible in PDF2.667 x 4.778")
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|
   >  |MMMMMM|XXXXXX|----> Bigger size (8.6 x 13.7 inches)
   >  |_______ |______|
   >
   >
   >  whereas as, I require only page size to be 6 x 9 inches without any
cropped
   >  areas in PDF. How to get this page size exactly.
   >
   >  Thanks in advance.
   >
   >  with regards,
   >  Dominic
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