It may be very helpful if one goes through the information available at the following links, before using "pdflatex". http://www.biophysik.uni-hannover.de/columns/tipps/computertipps/latex2pdf.html http://physics.wm.edu/~norman/latexhints/pdf_papersize.html -- H.S.Rai A computer program will always do what you tell it to do but rarely what you want to do.