On Di, 20 Nov 2012, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote: > $ pdflatex -recorder tmp1
>From your run .. > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > (./tmp1.tex > LaTeX2e <2011/06/27> > Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, > nohyphenation, fr > ench, basque, loaded. > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls > Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty) > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty) > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty) > (/home/cpbl/texmf/tex/maybeMissing/geometry/geometry.cfg)) (./tmp1.aux) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what does this file say? Maybe by chance something about A4??? I tried it on my computer and the documents come out in letter without any problem. Is it so hard to read the output? Bug can be closed, misconfiguration of the user. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORD Tell me Arthur... ARTHUR Yes? FORD This boulder we're stuck under, how big would you say it was? Roughly? ARTHUR Oh, about the size of Coventry Cathedral. FORD Do you think we could move it? (Arthur doesn't reply) Just asking. --- Ford and Arthur in a tricky situation, Fit the Eighth. --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to texlive-base in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071760 Title: On upgrade to 12.10, my pdflatex documents come out in A4 size, not letter Status in “texlive-base” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I don't suppose I've filed the bug in the right package, but: Under 12.04, my latex documents were compiled correctly for my region: into letter paper. After upgrade to 12.10, they are coming out as A4. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: texlive 2012.20120611-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 26 09:44:36 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-03 (388 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: texlive-base UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/1071760/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp