Re: [solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Kevin Mark wrote:
>> /===========================
>> mybox:/etc# cat /etc/papersize
>> a4
>> \===========================
> 
> That was my hunch. Great that it worked out ;-)

Thanks! ;-)

>> 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? 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256011

>                                 Is this expected/documented behavior?

Probably not.

Johannes
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