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by billmagee
Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:24 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: PDF prints various sizes
Replies: 10
Views: 5641

Re: PDF prints various sizes

I have now printed a number of other PDF documents using the same hardware, and I am finding similar size variety problems with them. Therefore, I am now convinced that my problem is hardware (probably printer-driver) related.

Thank you all for your kind suggestions. I will mark this thread solved.
by billmagee
Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:14 pm
Forum: New Members
Topic: New to this board
Replies: 2
Views: 2397

New to this board

Dear friends,

Thank you for this extremely helpful board. I have already posted a question and received my answers.

I am an American college professor in Taiwan. My college is known for its digital humanities projects. We are very interested in free and open source software and make every effort ...
by billmagee
Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:01 pm
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: PDF prints various sizes
Replies: 10
Views: 5641

Re: PDF prints various sizes

Thanks for these suggestions.

Due to my Taiwanese time zone it is now 3 a.m. I will post results when the office opens.
by billmagee
Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:54 pm
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: PDF prints various sizes
Replies: 10
Views: 5641

Re: PDF prints various sizes

I just saw your post regarding your feeling that this is a hardware issue.

I will do as you suggest, many thanks.
by billmagee
Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:52 pm
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: PDF prints various sizes
Replies: 10
Views: 5641

PDF prints various sizes

My published wants a book 15x21cm. Therefore I coded it this way:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,english]{book}
\usepackage[paperwidth=15truecm,
paperheight=21truecm,
headsep=1.0cm,
left=3.0truecm,
right=2.4truecm,
centering
] {geometry}
\usepackage[cam,a4,center]{crop}
\usepackage{blindtext ...
by billmagee
Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:34 pm
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: PDF prints various sizes
Replies: 10
Views: 5641

Re: PDF prints various sizes

Dear friends,

Thank you, I am very pleased to be here on this board. I am a long-time LaTeX user but on a very amateur level.

Thank you for your suggestions. I am away from my machine now but I will post my code as soon as I can.

I should have specified: I created the PDF file by running XeLaTeX ...
by billmagee
Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:48 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: PDF prints various sizes
Replies: 10
Views: 5641

PDF prints various sizes

I am using XeLaTeX with Ubunbtu 9.10.

Page is sized with geometry and I am using crop.

In my office I print the PDF and I get one size.

My colleague prints from Windows to a different printer and the size is more than a centimeter different.

The printers are both set for 100%.

Is this a known ...