Bug 704965

Any responses?

You can use texconfig or texconfig-sys TUI utility to set default paper size.

Can this be added to the pdftex man page? There is a whole lot of stuff in it except for this important piece of information.

(In reply to comment #2)
> You can use texconfig or texconfig-sys TUI utility to set default paper size.

In addition, after paper size has been set to A4 (using texconfig), pdflatex still does not generate for that size if graphicx package is included. See below.

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$ cat test.tex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

Test

\end{document}

$ pdflatex test.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish,
 french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, 
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))) (./test.aux) [1{/var/lib/t
exmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) )</usr/share/texmf/fonts
/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 4906 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

$ pdfinfo test.pdf
Creator:        TeX
Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.3
CreationDate:   Sun May 29 13:33:55 2011
ModDate:        Sun May 29 13:33:55 2011
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      4906 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4
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If output paper size is set to A4, a user would always expect it to generate A4 without the need for any other special options in his source.

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