[MiKTeX] Setting paper size

[djm <dj...@je...>]

Hello,

I want to use a different paper (and text) size for my document.
Seting the text size seems to be fine. The resulting dvi file has the
printed matter (text and graphics) restricted to the appropriate area
when I use:

      \setlength{\textwidth}  {95 mm}
      \setlength{\textheight} {152 mm}

Similarly for the ps/pdf files I create(via "dvips
-Ppdf", and ghostview/distiller). (So I could print onto A4 paper and
cut the edges off the page and no one would know any different)

So now I want to do away with having to cut the edges off the
page..the size of the paper in my pdf is unchanged (and presumably the
dvi and ps files... Im not sure how I can unambiguously tell what the
paper size is here because the the viewers yap and ghostview seem to
make the paper size whatever you want independently of the document?).
The smaller body of printed matter is still sitting in the same sized
page. I tried adding a line like

   \special{papersize=120mm, 178mm} % for dvips

but the resulting ps and pdf files have the printed matter pushed
around on the page (so that it sticks partly off the page, and wont
print), and Acrobat still reports the page size as
unchanged(209mmx207mm).

Any ideas?

  

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Declan                         mailto:dj...@je...