On 2004-04-07 11:04:17 +0200, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

while pdfTeXing business travel expenses here, things run differently than before, I get the text shifted, and page dimensions come out wrong, old files give now wrong results. See example xx.tex:

\magnification\magstep1 \pdfpagewidth=210truemm \pdfpageheight=297truemm Hi \bye

Do you also get

hahe@hahepc:~$ pdfinfo xx.pdf Creator: TeX Producer: pdfTeX-1.20a CreationDate: Wed Apr 7 10:53:02 2004 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 496.063 x 701.575 pts File size: 4303 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4

? Shouldn't this be A4? And

\magnification\magstep1 \pdfpagewidth=210mm \pdfpageheight=297mm Hi \bye

gives

Creator: TeX Producer: pdfTeX-1.20a CreationDate: Wed Apr 7 10:55:48 2004 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) File size: 4304 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4

which _is_ A4.

Yes; 1.20a here returns the same results. 1.11a gives

pdfinfo xx.pdf Creator: TeX Producer: pdfTeX-1.11a CreationDate: Thu Apr 8 15:15:45 2004 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts File size: 5783 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4 pdfinfo x1.pdf Creator: TeX Producer: pdfTeX-1.11a CreationDate: Thu Apr 8 15:15:55 2004 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 714.331 x 1010.27 pts File size: 5783 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4

Which certainly is different (and correct). I'm confused and suspect some problem with pdftexconfig.tex ... Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms@artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de