Re: [MiKTeX] pdftex problem

[David A. <dra...@me...>]

Bruce Babcock wrote:
> 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?

Which TeX format are you using? The format (or file) can override the page
specification using \pdfpagewidth or \pdfpageheight. To see whether your
change has worked, run:

$ pdftex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
**\showthe\pdfpagewidth
> 597.50787pt.
<*> \showthe\pdfwidth

is the output for A4. For US letter, it should be 614.295pt


David