wrong size default paper in dvips config

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:20:32 -0700


Fixed.  Thanks.

> In  the  user-guide.ps.gz,  and  probably  all Postscript generated since you
> upgraded to Red Hat 7.1, the page size is A4, not Letter.  The Red Hat people
> always set up dvips so it defaults to this size, who knows why.
> 
> To  fix this, go to /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config and edit the file (as root)
> config.ps.  Move the line
>     @ letterSize 8.5in 11in
> so that it is just before the line
>     @ A4size 210mm 297mm
> instead of a few lines after it.  This is because the first page size line is
> the one that is the default.
> 
> Warning,  after fixing this you may have to play around with your TeX margins
> to get it to come out correctly, but as it is set up  now  it  is  definitely
> wrong  and if people have both sizes of paper in their laser printer, some of
> them will decide to come out on A4 paper.