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[Lars Madsen]

Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2009/2/27 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
>> it is apparently because when the paper size is unknown to dvips it will use
>> the first one in the configuration file, thus A4
>>
> No, it was letter although my default is A4. dvips did not insert
> anything, letter is the default of ps2pdf.
> 

we changed the gs default to A4 long time ago.

>> it can be overwritten using
>>
>> dvips -t unknown
>>
> -t unknown does not help. The BoundingBox comment is calculated
> correctly but the paper size is not set. I consider it a bug if dvips
> ignores \special{papersize=...}
> 

it did help on the further processing by ps2pdf, at least it looks right 
in AR.

> I did other experiments:
> latex + dvipdfm: size is correct
> 
> xelatex:
> xdvipdfmx: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.1: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> No PDF created. It must also be a new problem because xelatex worked.
> YUM does not offer me any package with libexpat.so.1 (I have CentOS
> 5.2).
> 
>> I have no idea why this change was made, someone may have a good reason
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> /daleif
>>
> 
> 
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