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Bug#951381: marked as done (pdftex ignores tl-paper setting)

Your message dated Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:16:53 +0900
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and subject line Re: Bug#951381: pdftex ignores tl-paper setting
has caused the Debian Bug report #951381,
regarding pdftex ignores tl-paper setting
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Package: texlive-base, texlive-binaries

Version: 2018.20190227-2, 2018.20181218.49446-1

Paper size to letter:

$ tl-paper
Current dvipdfmx paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg): letter
Current dvips paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps): letter
Current pdftex paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex): letter
Current xdvi paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper): letter

But produced pdf files still come out as a4:

$ pdflatex test
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
Document Class: letter 2014/09/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./test.aux)
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3] (./test.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)</usr/share/texlive/texmf-d
ist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fo
nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (3 pages, 33961 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

$ pdfinfo test.pdf
Creator:        TeX
Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.19
CreationDate:   Sat Feb 15 12:23:17 2020 EST
ModDate:        Sat Feb 15 12:23:17 2020 EST
Tagged:         no
UserProperties: no
Suspects:       no
Form:           none
_javascript_:     no
Pages:          3
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
Page rot:       0
File size:      33961 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.5

This has apparently been fixed in unstable but not in stable or testing.


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Hi Ted,

> Ah, yes, you are correct.  Doh!

Good to hear. I have added a note to the output of
	tl-paper -h
to make this clear. Closing this bug now.

Thanks

Norbert

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