Bug#223283: tetex-base: pdftex does not use /etc/papersize

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 11.12.03 Martin Michlmayr (tbm@cyrius.com) wrote:
> * Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> [2003-12-08 09:46]:

Hi,

http://bugs.debian.org/223283

> > On the other hand, pdftex cannot be changed to look into
> > /etc/papersize itself, because it usually won't find it. I doubt
> > wether other Linux distributions use such a file, not to speak about
> > other Unices, Windows or Mac OS.
> 
> You can have a patch which is specific to Debian's tetex package
> which does exactly this.  There are a fair number of packages which
> have patches to change the behaviour in this regard (e.g. changing
> a call to "more" or "less" to "pager", which is a Debian specific
> thing).
> 
IIRC there was already a request to send us that patch. If you have
one by hand, would you be so kind?

Thanks,
  Hilmar 
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