Re: latex letterpaper & dvipdf
On 2/9/06, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
> i am struggling at writing a paper and i have to respect the options
> "letterpaper"
> which is default in IEEEtran.cls
> but when i open the pdf by acrobat it defaults to
> 8.26*11.69in
>
> instead of:
> 8.50*11in
>
> my header contains:
>
> \documentclass[letterpaper]{IEEEtran}
>
> so i do not know if it may be a problem in dvipdf conversion after
> that i generate the pdf from the dvi.
> do you know how to set the option "letter" in dvipdf?
> man page seems to be rather short...
dvipdf calls dvips behind the scenes, so if you pass it "-t letter",
you should end up with an 8.5"x11" PDF document.
If you want to change this globally, not just for this particular
case, you can create a file "~/.dvipsrc" with the line
t tetter
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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