Page Layout ⇒ geometry package margin failure

[ther]

Readers,

A latex file is processed with the commands:

latex test.tex
dvipdf test.dvi

and the pdf file is printed. Measuring the margins with a rule, shows the left margin to be 34 mm, top margin 18 mm, right margin 40 mm, bottom margin, 57 mm. According to the manual of the geometry package, the margins should be identical with the commands below:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.4}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=35mm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
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\end{document}

What is the error please?

yours,

[php1ic]

What is the default paper size on your system? I don't think dvipdf reads the .dvi file for paper size, so the final pdf may be letter rather then a4.

From the man page

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NAME
       dvipdf - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using ghostscript and dvips
SYNOPSIS
       dvipdf [ options ] input.dvi [ output.pdf ] ...
DESCRIPTION
       This  script  invokes dvips(1) with the -q option, and pipes its output
       into gs(1) with the following options:
                       -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
       as well as -sOutputFile and any options from the command-line.
 
 
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So you could try adding the option to use the correct paper

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dvipdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 test.dvi
 
 
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P.S. Always put any latex code in a the code environment, it makes posts far easier to read.

[ther]

According to evince, the paper format was american (used by noone throughout the world, but I digress!) so I changed as described but obtained the following terminal error response:

dvipdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 test.dvi
dvips: ! Bad DVI file: first byte not preamble

which of course fails to produce the pdf file. What next to do please?

[ther]

The latex file was processed again and the dvipdf command was successful:

dvips -sPAPERSIZE=a4 test.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2010.08.23:1246' -> |lpr
<tex.pro><texps.pro>. <cmr12.pfb>[1] [2] [3]

However, according to evince, the pdf file remains formatted for us letter portrait (216x279 mm)

[ther]

Just realised that the command

dvipdf ...

produces the pdf file formatted as a4; sorry for previous post.

[php1ic]

If dvipdf is simply a script that does "dvips file.dvi | ps2pdf" then dvips may be trying to interpret the option hence the error message. The equivalent dvips option is "-ta4", but then the ps->pdf may revert back to US-letter

I force a4paper format at each conversion, this is what I do to create pdfs,

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dvips -ta4 file.dvi -o
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 file.ps
 
 
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[ther]

The manual page for dvipdf states the command is a script that pipes output to gs. So the dvipdf script should be able to replace the use of two commands, dvips and ps2pdf.

[php1ic]

Looks like if you use any options, you have to say which command they are for.

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[php1ic@10 ~/tmp]$ which dvipdf
/usr/bin/dvipdf
[php1ic@10 ~/tmp]$ cat /usr/bin/dvipdf
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: dvipdf,v 1.4 2002/02/21 21:49:28 giles Exp $
# Convert DVI to PDF.
#
# Please contact Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk> with any questions
# about this file.
#
# Based on ps2pdf
OPTIONS=""
DVIPSOPTIONS=""
while true
do
        case "$1" in
        -R*) DVIPSOPTIONS="$DVIPSOPTIONS $1";;
        -*) OPTIONS="$OPTIONS $1" ;;
        *)  break ;;
        esac
        shift
done
if [ $# -lt 1 -o $# -gt 2 ]; then
        echo "Usage: `basename $0` [options...] input.dvi [output.pdf]" 1>&2
        exit 1
fi
infile=$1;
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
        case "${infile}" in
          *.dvi)        base=`basename "${infile}" .dvi` ;;
          *)            base=`basename "${infile}"` ;;
        esac
        outfile="${base}".pdf
else
        outfile=$2
fi
 
 
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Do you have dvipdfm? That automatically get the correct paper size for me but also has the all-in-one option of -p to manually specify the format.