[solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Kevin Mark wrote:
> I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or
> the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is
> different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions?

Thanks!

It turned out to be /etc/papersize

/===========================
mybox:/etc# cat /etc/papersize
a4
\===========================

did it.

Funny though, that dvips obeys the document specific paper size, while
ps2pdf ignores the document's settings. At the same time dvips has an
option to change the paper size 'on the fly', while ps2pdf does not.

(Latex users should be able select a paper size within the document
"documentclass[a4paper]..." etc. and not via /etc/papersize, IMHO. On
the other hand applications like iceweasel -- where a system wide paper
size makes much more sense: all printers on a system typically offer the
same paper size -- ignore /etc/papersize and always use "letter". )

Johannes
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