Re: [solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> Kevin Mark wrote:
> > I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or
> > the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is
> > different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions?
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> Thanks!
>
> It turned out to be /etc/papersize
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> /===========================
> mybox:/etc# cat /etc/papersize
> a4
> \===========================
That was my hunch. Great that it worked out ;-)
>
> did it.
>
> Funny though, that dvips obeys the document specific paper size, while
> ps2pdf ignores the document's settings. At the same time dvips has an
> option to change the paper size 'on the fly', while ps2pdf does not.
>
> (Latex users should be able select a paper size within the document
> "documentclass[a4paper]..." etc. and not via /etc/papersize, IMHO. On
> the other hand applications like iceweasel -- where a system wide paper
> size makes much more sense: all printers on a system typically offer the
> same paper size -- ignore /etc/papersize and always use "letter". )
Is there a bug report in this? Is this expected/documented behavior?
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