On 02.05.2008, at 05:45, adam_taylor wrote:
Folks,
I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx
1.5.1
under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive.
I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in
it, and
then wanted to make a PDF. I selected View > PDF (pdflatex), and then
looked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two
problems
(as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would
prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts
(Postscript Type
3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4
problem by
setting the paper size in Document > Settings... to "Letter" and then
re-making the PDF, but it still seems to be A4. I tried the two
other ways
of producing PDFs, dvipdfm and ps2pdf, and both solve the page size
problem,
but not the bitmap font problem. Nevertheless, I like the fact that
pdflatex goes directly from the source LaTeX file to a PDF, so it
would be
nice to get the page size right with pdflatex...
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix these things?
Yeah, I remember this problem - quite confusing.
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg58912.html
Short summary: The document size options in LaTeX (hence LyX) just
specify the *logical* paper size for which the output should be
rendered. LaTeX does not deal with *physical* paper sizes, which are
in the responsibility of the backend driver. Hence, the phyiscal paper
size has to be passed by some /special commands or magic options to
pdflatex. (AFAIR pdflatex uses defaults that probably depend on your
locale settings. I would assume that there is a config file somewhere
under /etc.)
IIRC, I solved the issue with the help of the hyperref package. I
guess it was the "letterpaper" option that let hyperref generate the
necessary \special commands for pdflatex.
Daniel
