I just ran in to the issue discussed in the lyx-users thread "How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout"[1]. Specifically, changing the page size in Lyx's Document Settings usually does not affect the page size of the pdf produced by pdflatex. I say usually because if you happen to choose one of the sizes that isn't an option for \documentclass the page size will be set correctly with the geometry package. I was able to force the usage of \geometry by setting custom margins in Document Settings, even setting empty margins works. The current behavior, however, is extremely confusing.
I wasn't able to find a bug for this issue should I open one? My impression from the referenced thread is that this may not be trivial to fix. Nonetheless, this seems like a fairly severe usability hazard, especially with pdflatex as the default pdf backend. If a fix seems unlikely in the near future I'll go ahead and add a note to the wiki, hopefully saving the next poor soul some googling. BTW I'm using 1.5.4 on OS X so if this has already been addressed please forgive the noise. Best, Jed [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg58912.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Setting-paper-size-for-pdflatex-tp17117576p17117576.html Sent from the LyX - Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
