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Description of problem: This is rather a request for documentation or clarification on configuration of pdflatex. On Fedora Core 14, I no longer find pdftex.cfg that normally used to be at $TEXBASE/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg In particular, how does a user now know how to set the paper size? 'man pdflatex' does not even have a match for the keyword 'size'. Earlier, people used to edit pdftex.cfg to change the default itself with lines like page_width 8.5truein page_height 11.0truein In any case, the man page for pdflatex should say how the size can be set. texlive-latex-2007-56.fc14.i686
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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. -------------------- $ 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 ---------------- 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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