On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:19, you wrote: > I'm now seriously going crazy. I could reproduce the problem by setting > that LANGUAGE setting, but I cannot undo it anymore! > Or rather, I'm not sure anymore that that is where the problem is. Got it! Finally. There's a combination of factors here that made things end up so very, very differently. The first, and most important is the one shown in the previous mail of this thread: because of the missing TeX configuration files, the .ps file would be generated differently and, instead of having: %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842 %%DocumentPaperSizes: a4 it would have: %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792 There were probably other differences in the ps files as well, but that is the most visible and identifiable. This issue was fixed by reinstalling the missing configuration files and I can reproduce it by deleting (or moving) them. The second is something I just discovered. On my etch and sid amd64 boxes, I had both gs-gpl and gs-esp installed, with dpkg-alternatives pointing to gs-esp; on the sid i386 box I only had gs-gpl. And these behave very differently. gs-gpl will _always_ generate "letter" by default gs-esp will _always_ generate "a4" by default This produces some interesting effects: a4 ps file -> gs-esp : a4 OK a4 ps file -> gs-gpl : letter no top margin letter ps file -> gs-esp : a4 double top margin, no bottom margin letter ps file -> gs-gpl : letter no bottom margin So, there you have all the variants I've been seeing, perfectly explained and reproducible :-/ Cheers, FJP
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