On 30/05/07, Clive Nicholas <clivelists@...> wrote:
>
> Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
> > Your pdf is probably in letter format.
>
> Interestingly, Adobe Reader 8 *does* default to letter format, and
> nothing I can do within <Print Setup> there will make it show A4 size
> as the default (even if I click <Properties> and change it there,
> where it does stay permanently). No matter, as...
>
> > At first add the option dvips to the geometry package and try again.
>
> ...adding the [dvips] option to the {geometry} package does work:
> thanks for this. However, I'm finding that it only solves my problem
> if I don't specify any margins. This is a problem for me, as the text
> of my CV document now veers over to the right of each page, and I need
> it to display the text with equal margins either side. I need to find
> out how I can get my 0.5" margins back! Any ideas?
Well, instead of using \setlength{\textwidth}{18cm} you can use the
following commands to keep your text centered (at least in my case, it does)
:
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-2cm} % even page left margin
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-2cm} % odd page left margin
\addtolength{\textwidth}{4cm} % width of text
Equaly, for top and bottom margins:
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-2cm}
\addtolength{\textheight}{4cm} % height of main text
HTH,
Corentin
PS: I think this is a LaTeX related question, not a MikTeX one...
> If this doesn't help tell us *exactly* how you are converting the ps
> > to pdf. (Btw: Why don't you use pdflatex?)
>
> Apologies for not hitherto mentioning which text editor I use: Shu
> Shen's MeWa (http://www.meshwalk.com/latexeditor). Its .ps to .pdf
> process calls the latest executable of GhostScript uses the following
> code:
>
> "C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.57\bin\gswin32c.exe" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3
> -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile="$(FilePath)$(FileTitle).pdf" -c save pop -f
> "$(FilePath)$(FileTitle).ps"
>
> To answer your other question (also asked by Jose Carlos Santos), it's
> more a case of not being able to use PDFLaTeX rather than choosing not
> to under this editor: I don't think MeWa is currently capable.
> However, I'm comfortable with MeWa as it's always worked for me (up
> until now!).
>
> And yes, Jose, I did post the correct log file: I copied from the
> output window *exactly* what MeWa produced. :)
>
> Thanks to all of you for your sterling help thus far.
>
> --
> Clive Nicholas
>
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