On 07.02.13 Norman Ramsey (nr@cs.tufts.edu) wrote:
Hi,
> I'm running plain TeX using 'pdftex', and it's producing A4 PDF.
> But I have configured it to use US letter paper both using
> texconfig interactively and by
>
> texconfig pdftex paper letter
>
> Something is wrong with the configuration.
>
sid:~# texconfig pdftex paper
WARNING: On Debian, this change will NOT be persistent
upon upgrades or changes to the libpaper settings!
Usage: texconfig pdftex paper PAPER
Valid PAPER settings:
a4 letter
When trying to configure is using texconfig-dialog you'll get a
warning, that you should use paperconf instead.
Voilà:
sid:~# paperconfig -p letter
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for context to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfm to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to letter.
/usr/bin/tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to letter.
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --refresh.
This may take some time... done.
hille@sid:~ $ less -X a.tex
test
\bye
hille@sid:~ $ pdftex a
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./a.tex [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}])</usr/share/te
xlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on a.pdf (1 page, 10609 bytes).
Transcript written on a.log.
hille@sid:~ $ pdfinfo a.pdf
Creator: TeX
Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.13
CreationDate: Fri Feb 8 10:59:19 2013
ModDate: Fri Feb 8 10:59:19 2013
Tagged: no
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size: 10609 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.5
Does this convince you?
H.
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