buggy testpage.tex (wrong PDF page size)?

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi Norbert,

On 2024-08-27 07:52:39 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > unset Debian/unstable (TeX Live packages 2024.20240706-1) with
> 
> Not a TeX Live question, but Debian.

OK, I've reported a bug to the Debian BTS (I thought that this
was a Debian independent issue).

> > \papertype=a5paper
> > \doublesided=n
> > 
> > The contents assume A5, but the paper size itself is still A4
> 
> \papertype has no influence on the physical paper that is expected.

Note that the \papertype was not added by me, but is part of the
testpage.tex file.

> Debian uses a special paper support, you can select the default
> paper with 
> 	paper-conf
> or so (AFAIR), which for you is most probably set to A4.

Yes, A4 is what I want in general. I used a5paper for testing
PDF viewers (I needed to generate a PDF file with Mediaboxes
of increasing sizes, so e.g. A5 and A4).

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