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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label papergeom</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Getting the right paper geometry from (La)TeX</h3>
-<p/>If your output is the wrong size, and you&#8217;ve checked that it&#8217;s not due
-to the <a href="FAQ-acroantics.html">ministrations of Adobe <i>Reader</i></a>,
-the problem is probably that your (La)TeX system is producing output
-that specifies the wrong paper size. Paper sizes can be a pain:
-they&#8217;re a forgotten backwater &#8212; Knuth seems not to have considered
-paper size as something the TeX engine needs to know about. As a
-result, there is no DVI command to specify the paper on which
-the document should be printed, which has led a dichotomy where macros
-shape the text according to the needs of the author&#8217;s chosen paper
-size, and device drivers&#8217; choice happens independently of the macros&#8217;
-ideas.
-<p/>In practice, one usually finds that macro packages (such as Plain TeX and
-LaTeX) assume American &#8220;letter&#8221; paper size, by default; and since
-most distributions nowadays originate in Europe, the drivers usually
-default to ISO &#8220;A4&#8221; paper size.
-<p/>This is (of course) pretty unsatisfactory. Users may select a
-different paper size for their document (current LaTeX offers a
-range of sizes as options in the standard classes), pretty easily.
-Nevertheless, the user also has to be sure that each time
-<i>xdvi</i>, <i>dvips</i> (or whatever) runs, it uses the
-paper size the document was designed for.
-<p/>The default paper size for DVI drivers may be changed by a
-distribution management command (<i>texconfig</i> for TeX Live,
-the <i>Options</i> application for MiKTeX), but this still
-doesn&#8217;t provide for people using the &#8220;wrong&#8221; sort of paper for some
-reason.
-<p/>A different issue arises for users of PDFTeX &#8212; the
-PDF format <em>does</em> have the means of expressing paper size
-and PDFTeX has system variables <code>\</code><code>pdfpagewidth</code> and
-<code>\</code><code>pdfpageheight</code>, that are written into the output PDF file.
-Unfortunately, most of the core software predates PDFTeX, so not even
-PDFLaTeX sets the correct values into those variables, to match the
-paper size specified in a <code>\</code><code>documentclass</code> option.
-<p/>The DVI drivers <i>dvips</i>, <i>dvipdfm</i> and its
-extensions (<i>dvipdfmx</i> and <i>xdvipdfmx</i>) define
-<code>\</code><code>special</code> commands for the document to specify its own paper size;
-so in those cases, as when PDFTeX or VTeX is being used, the
-paper size can be programmed by the document. Users who wish to, may
-of course consult the manuals of the various programs to write the
-necessary code.
-<p/>The <i>geometry</i> package (whose main business is defining
-typeset page areas), also takes notice the size of the paper that the
-document is going to be printed on, and can issue the commands
-necessary to ensure the correct size of paper is used. If
-<i>geometry</i> is used when a document is being processed by
-PDFLaTeX, it can set the necessary dimensions &#8220;in the output&#8221;.
-If the document is being processed by LaTeX on a TeX or e-TeX
-engine, there are package options which instruct <i>geometry</i>
-which <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands to use. (Note that the options are
-ignored if you are using either PDFLaTeX or VTeX.)
-<p/>So, the resolution of the problem, when you are using LaTeX, is to add
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage[processor-option,...]{geometry}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-Where <code>processor-option</code> tells the package what will produce
-your (PostScript or PDF driver &#8212; <i>geometry</i> knows about
-<code>dvips</code> and <code>dvipdfm</code> (<code>dvipdfm</code> also
-serves for the extension <i>dvipdfmx</i> and
-<i>xdvipdfmx</i>).
-<p/>If you&#8217;re using PDFLaTeX, XeTeX or VTeX, load with
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage[program-option,...]{geometry}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-where <code>program-option</code> is <code>pdftex</code>,
-<code>xetex</code> or <code>vtex</code>.
-<p/>Needless to say, both the &#8220;big&#8221; classes (<i>koma-script</i> and
-<i>memoir</i>) provide their own ways to get the paper size
-&#8220;right&#8221;.
-<p/>The <i>typearea</i> package is the <i>Koma-script</i>
-distribution&#8217;s way of providing page layout functionality. Load it
-with the <code>pagesize</code> option and it will ensure the correct
-paper is selected, for PDF output from PDFLaTeX, and for
-PostScript output from LaTeX via <i>dvips</i>.
-<p/><i>Memoir</i> has the standard classes&#8217; paper-size selections
-(<code>a4paper</code>, <code>letterpaper</code> and so on), but also
-permits the user to choose an arbitrary paper size, by setting the
-length registers <code>\</code><code>stockheight</code> and <code>\</code><code>stockwidth</code>. The commands
-<code>\</code><code>fixdvipslayout</code> (for LaTeX processing), and <code>\</code><code>fixpdflayout</code>
-(for PDFLaTeX processing) then instruct the processor to produce
-output that specifies the necessary paper size.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>geometry.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/geometry.zip">macros/latex/contrib/geometry</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/geometry.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>typearea.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/typearea.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=papergeom">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=papergeom</a>
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