Re: [MiKTeX] Letterpaper

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2008 um 18:55 schrieb José Carlos Santos:

> Hi all,

> If I compile this file with PDFLaTeX (under MiKTeX 2.7):

> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \begin{document}
> The article under review contains a proof of the fact that
> $2+2=4$. However, not only the statement is well-known as,
> furthermore, to proof is flawed.
> \end{document}

> I get (not surprisingly) an A4 size document. However, if

>     a4paper

> is replaced by

>    letterpaper

> I still get an A4 size document. Why is that?


Because the letterpaper option only set TeX-variables but don't set
pdf page size. (article.cls is much to old to know about pdf).

Either set \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight manually or use
\usepackage[dvips]{geometry} (Yes, dvips is okay even with pdflatex).

Newer classes like the KOMA-classes or memoir have options to set the
pagesize, e.g.:

\documentclass[letterpaper, pagesize]{scrbook}

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