Bug#556579: /usr/bin/pdftex: pdflatex uses "letter" layout but "a4" paper size

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

forcemerge 49149 556579
thanks

On Mo, 16 Nov 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have /etc/papersize set to "letter", and pdflatex correctly uses it to do text

Care to read at least once through the list of already known bug?
The following bugs already report this:
	58320, 59549, 159682, 223283, 225833
(at least)

the above (49149) being from 1999. Please read up on 402994 if yo u are
interested for ideas on implementation.

Thanks.

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   preining@jaist.ac.jp
Vienna University of Technology                               preining@logic.at
Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force)                    preining@debian.org
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