[tex-live] PDF output size incoherent with XeLaTeX ?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-08-04 16:30 GMT+02:00 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
> AFAIR texcondig does not apply to the pdf creation it self. It is a setting for the aux functions found in the LaTeX dist
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> You will have to make sure the actual sizes are written to the PDF it self.
>
> For example in standard LaTeX the geometry package does this automatically, which is why the geometry package is usually recommended over setting the margin layout by hand.
>
Another option is zwpagelayout. It does almost the same as geometry
but the philosophy behind it is slightly different.

> Basically you have to have to make sure \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight have the proper sizes at begin document
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> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
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> Subject: [tex-live] PDF output size incoherent with XeLaTeX ?
>
> Hello.
>
> This is on Gentoo Linux, texlive-core-2013-r1.
>
> I create my documents using my own page parameters (textheight,
> textwidth, margins, etc.) so that I can use nearly all the printable
> space of an A4 sheet.
>
> When I typeset them, evince (pdf viewer) tells me that the document is
> in US Letter. However, in texconfig, I have selected A4 as my paper
> size.
>
> When I print a document, the bottom is cut (I guess this is because US
> Letter is shorter than A4).
>
> How can I solve this problem, since I used texconfig to set the paper
> size to A4? Do I need to put a special command in the TeX file, or on
> the command line when invoking xelatex?
>
> Thanks for any hint, I have been trying to solve this for a while now.
>
>
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