Re: [MiKTeX] pdftex problem

[Bruce B. <ba...@ma...>]

George,

Sorry, I am running MiKTeX 2.8.

I ran "kpsewhich pdftexconfig.tex"  and in pdftexconfig.tex it told me to

initexmf --edit-config-file pdftex

and in this file I made

page_width 8.5 true in
page_height 11 true in

and saved the changes.  I then ran pdftex foo.tex and again when I 
looked at the foo.pdf, I still had an A4 ouput and not a Letter. :(

So do you (or any others) have further ideas to try?

bruce




went to the followed the instructions

George N. White III wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Bruce Babcock <ba...@ma...> wrote:
> 
>> Under XP, from a command line, if I enter
>>
>> pdftex foo.tex
>>
>> I get foo.pdf, but when I view the pdf it looks like a A4 output.
>>
>> However, if I enter
>>
>> tex foo.tex
>>
>> then
>>
>> dvips foo.dvi
>>
>> then
>>
>> ps2pdf foo.ps
>>
>> I get foo.pdf and when I view the pdf it gives me a Letter output.
>>
>> So, my questions is how do I configure pdftex so it will produce a
>> letter output instead a A4 output.
> 
> You don't mention what version of MiKTeX -- older versions used a
> different configuration for pdftex.
> 
> The paper size used by recent pdftex is set in pdftexconfig.tex, but you should
> not edit that files directly, but follow the adice in the comments.  You can
> find the file using "kpsewhich pdftexconfig.tex".
>