Re: [MiKTeX] pdftex problem

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\pdfpageheight and \pdfpagewidth are pdftex-specific. Changing it to

\expandafter\ifx\csname pdfoutput\endcsname\relax\else
  \ifnum\pdfoutput=1
    \pdfpagewidth=...
    \pdfpageheight=...
  \fi
\fi

will work in all TeXs

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Babcock [mailto:ba...@ma...]
> Sent: 13 January 2010 10:49
> To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions.
> Cc: David Allsopp
> Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] pdftex problem
> 
> Thanks to David,
> 
> The problem is solved!
> 
> When I
> 
> %\magnification=\magstep1
> 
> then pdftex worked perfect on the tex file.
> 
>  From David, if I left in the
> 
> \magnification=\magstep1
> 
> and added the two lines
> 
> \pdfpagewidth=8.5truein
> 
> \pdfpageheight=11truein
> 
> Then, pdftex worked, but tex failed.
> 
> Again, thanks to all who made comments and a special thanks to David
> Allsopp,
> 
> bruce
> 
> David Allsopp wrote:
> > Hi Bruce,
> >
> > 	Aha - with the aid of a test file, your problem is solved. Line 1
> of
> > your file has \magnification=\magstep1 which multiplies all dimensions
> > by
> > 1.2 - that means that 8.5" becomes 10.2" because \pdfpagewidth is
> > affected by \magnification like any other TeX dimension. This won't
> > affect your other paths as the conversion to PDF is done after TeX has
> run.
> >
> > 	Curiously enough, this isn't buggy behaviour - it's just very weird
> > and probably doesn't affect LaTeX because its pdfTeX driver accounts
> > for it (but I don't use LaTeX so I don't know...). It's been discussed
> > before by the look of pdftex and comp.tex archive lists but appears
> > not to have been "fixed". There are various long macro solutions
> > online to patch plain's \magnification to work with pdftex but the
> easiest thing to do is to say:
> >
> > 	\pdfpagewidth=8.5truein \pdfpageheight=11truein
> >
> > 	Or, ahem, to pick the correct font sizes in the first place! The
> > other solutions involve caching the value of \pdfpagewidth and
> > \pdfpageheight initially and then automatically inserting
> > \pdfpagewidth=blah true pt after the call.
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >> David,
> >>
> >> Thank you for the suggestions and I wish they fixed my problem, but
> >> no such luck. :(
> >>
> >> For your information, I have attached some samples.
> >>
> >> test.tex <-- this is a sample page
> >>
> >> test.dvi <-- what I got running "tex test.tex."
> >>
> >> test_1pdf <-- this is what I got running "pdftex test.tex."
> >>
> >> I did do the following and it did not fix my problem.
> >>
> >>  > initexmf --admin --edit-config-file=pdftex
> >>  > 	and put the two lines for US letter
> >>  > initexmf --admin --dump
> >>  > 	to rebuild formats
> >>  > pdftex \input story\bye
> >>
> >> test_2.pdf <-- this is what I got when I did "tex test.tex; dvips
> >> test.dvi; ps2pdf test.ps."  (*)
> >>
> >> test_3.pdf <-- this is what I got when I did "dvipdfm test.dvi."
> >>
> >> ttest_4.pdf <-- this is what I got under Linux (Slackware 12.1) after
> >> doing what I did in (*) and this is what I'd like to get!
> >>
> >> Any help or suggestions are certainly welcom, if you have the time
> >> and interest.
> >>
> >> bruce
> >>
> >> P.S. I should note that pdflatex seems to work just fine.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Bruce Babcock wrote:
> >>>> Thanks to those who have made suggestions.  But, still pdftex is
> >>>> not working correctly.  :(
> >>> On my machine (Windows 7 Ultimate x64, built on 31-Dec-2009 - i.e.
> >>> recently) from an elevated prompt I ran:
> >>>
> >>> initexmf --admin --edit-config-file=pdftex
> >>> 	and put the two lines for US letter initexmf --admin --dump
> >>> 	to rebuild formats
> >>> pdftex \input story\bye
> >>>
> >>> story.pdf is US Letter. Is the *PDF* definitely the wrong size? The
> >>> only well to tell this is to open the file in Adobe Reader (or
> >>> another PDF
> >>> reader) and look in Document -> Properties and see what the page
> >>> size is reported as. \pdfpagewidth is totally independent of \hsize
> >>> (in other words unless your format does something to set-up
> >>> \pdfpagewidth and \hsize then changing \pdfpagewidth in an "A4" TeX
> >>> will blat an A4
> >> on a US letter sheet).
> >>> I only use Plain TeX (or more specifically, formats of my own based
> >>> on Plain
> >>> TeX) and have never had problems with document sizes - but if you're
> >>> using Plain TeX then everything is your responsibility!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Here is an update:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1.  I did a fresh install of XP on a spare computer and then
> >>>> installed MiKTeX 2.8 setting the paper size to LETTER.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2.  As suggested, I
> >>>>
> >>>> pdflatex sample2e.tex
> >>>>
> >>>> and sample2e.pdf looked fine.  Likewise, doing
> >>>>
> >>>> latex sample2e.tex following by dvips sample2e.dvi followed by
> >>>> ps2pdf sample2e.ps
> >>>>
> >>>> gave me a sample2e.pdf which viewed the same as the sample2e.pdf
> >> before.
> >>>> I also tried
> >>>>
> >>>> dvipdfm sample2e.dvi and again the pdf generated view the same as
> >>>> the other two.
> >>>>
> >>>> 3.  But, the same was not true for pdftex. :(
> >>>>
> >>>> When I ran pdftex on a plain tex file, I called the file foo.tex,
> >>>> the foo.pdf did not view the same as the foo.pdf generated doing
> >>>>
> >>>> tex foo.tex;  dvips foo.dvi;  ps2pdf foo.ps   (*)
> >>>>
> >>>> or by doing
> >>>>
> >>>> dvipdfm foo.dvi.
> >>>>
> >>>> So, at this point I not sure where to go.  If anyone has a plain
> >>>> tex file that is not altered when applying pdftex or (*), I would
> >>>> be interested in testing it on my machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any other comments or suggestions are welcome,
> >>>>
> >>>> bruce
> >>>>
> >>>> George N. White III wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Ulrike Fischer <li...@ni...>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> [...]
> >>>>>>> When I entered "pdftex" followed by "**\showthe\pdfpagewidth" I
> >>>>>>> got the message
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> entering extended mode
> >>>>>>  >> 614.295pt.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Well this sounds as if the format contains the correct default
> >>>>>> settings. So if the pdf still has not the correct page size your
> >>>>>> document is responsable. At first check in the adobe reader the
> >>>>>> actual size of the pdf.
> >>>>> You may be using a package that messes with page size, or you may
> >>>>> have some older version of a file that conflicts with the miktex
> >>>>> version, in which case even a basic document can get the wrong
> >> settings.
> >>>>>> Then show us a minimal foo.tex that exhibits the problem.
> >>>>>> Put at the begin \showthe\pdfpagewidth and sent the log-file too.
> >>>>> Try "sample2e.tex", which is included in the base latex files.  If
> >>>>> you don't get a letter size pdf, see:
> >>>>> <http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=filesused>
> >>>>> for instructions on getting a list of the files used.
> >>>>>
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Re: [MiKTeX] pdftex problem