RE: [MiKTeX] PDFLaTeX scales document

[Hubert L. <hub...@st...>]

That is because if you don't use [a4paper], the output will be letterpaper,
and in Acrobat you also have "Shrink oversized pages to paper size" checked
in the Print dialog box.

You should uncheck that box, and use the [a4paper] option, if printing to
A4. Processed LaTeX documents are notorious for generating letter paper PDFs
(dvipdfm, dvipdf, PDFLaTeX all behave in a similar fashion), and Acrobat
shrinks the Letter paper by around 4% when you have that "Shrink..." check
box ticked.

--
Hubert Lam
The University of New South Wales
BE (Telecommunications)/BSc (Mathematics)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mik...@li...
> [mailto:mik...@li...] On Behalf Of August
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:41 AM
> To: mik...@li...
> Subject: [MiKTeX] PDFLaTeX scales document
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> When I format a LaTeX source file with PDFLaTeX (version 2.4.1690) the
> pages in the PDF document are scaled to about 96% of the size of the
> pages in the corresponding DVI document. It makes no difference if the
> document class option `a4paper' is present or not, the document
> (printed on A4 paper) is still scaled. Has anyone experienced the same
> problem? Try for instance to process the following file with LaTeX and
> PDFLaTeX, print out the resulting documents and compare the results.
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \noindent
> If this document is formated with PDF \LaTeX{} the page is about 4\%
> smaller compared to the corresponding DVI.
> \end{document}
> 
> Regards,
> August
> 
> 
> 
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