Bug#397391: marked as done (texlive-pdfetex: Documentation for how to get pdf(e|la)tex to use letter-size paper is missing)
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Package: texlive-pdfetex
Version: 2005.dfsg.2-2
Severity: wishlist
I'm still not sure I did this right to make everything within TeXLive
happy... I copied pdftexconfig.tex into /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config
then hacked it as follows, since none of the obvious approaches
(running texconfig in various and sundry ways) seemed to work:
% Set pdfTeX parameters for pdf mode (replacing pdftex.cfg file).
% Thomas Esser, 2004. public domain.
\pdfoutput=1
\pdfcompresslevel=9
\pdfdecimaldigits=3
\pdfpagewidth=8.5 true in
\pdfpageheight=11 true in
\pdfhorigin=1 true in
\pdfvorigin=1 true in
\pdfpkresolution=600
\endinput
(I'm not sure if I needed the full file or just the changes... but I
figured better safe than sorry.)
Then I did fmtutil-sys --refresh as root.
I'm pretty sure I had to do the same thing back with teTeX at some point.
In any event, could this go in an FAQ somewhere? I suppose the
"right" thing would be to have this file modified based on the paper
size set in libpaper1's debconf settings...
-- Package-specific info:
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 quango quango 422 Nov 5 20:06 /home/quango/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2066 Nov 6 18:00 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 76624 Nov 5 20:06 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Nov 5 15:55 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 30 14:24 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 30 14:24 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 5 15:55 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5487 Nov 6 17:42 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9823 Nov 6 17:42 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4231 Nov 6 17:42 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages texlive-pdfetex depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: Base component
texlive-pdfetex recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-pdfetex is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: false
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On 11/7/06, Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 18:13 -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> I'm still not sure I did this right to make everything within TeXLive
> happy... I copied pdftexconfig.tex into /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config
> then hacked it as follows, since none of the obvious approaches
> (running texconfig in various and sundry ways) seemed to work:
What did you try? The proper way to set pdfTeX to letter paper *is*
texconfig-sys pdftex paper letter
Or
texconfig-sys paper letter
to also change the defaults for dvips and dvipdfm. That is if you want
to change the system-wide default. Use texconfig for per user changes.
I wasn't aware of the -sys variant of texconfig... thanks!
This one can probably be closed... I apparently just wasn't reading
the right manual (or Google hits :-)
Chris
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