Page Layout ⇒ KOMA-Script | Text Height Problem

[marchov]

Dear members,

I have the following problem. I wrote on the beginning of this year a long text, which was working properly. Now, after four months I tried to compile the document again and arose a problem with the text size, page size respectively. The text (already in the DVI) is zoomed in the page in height, whereas the page number is only partially visible. (I didn't use geometry package.) Between the both compilations I changed the version of my Linux and expect, that this could be the reason of the problem. But I don't know how to repair this, without going back to the old version of my Linux. May be someone had the same problem?

Here I put a minimum version, you can include any text larger than 1 page. Can someone help me to rescale the text to a standard size?

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\documentclass[a4paper,
           12pt,
           titlepage,
           headinclude,
           headsepline,
           liststotoc,
           normalheadings,
           DIV15,
           idxtotoc,
           bibtotoc, 
           BCOR20mm]{scrbook} 
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{color} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\linespread{1.2}

\begin{document}
\mainmatter
\pagestyle{headings}
%put any text larger than one page and look at page numbers.
\end{document}

[kaiserkarl13]

I was about to say, "this works for me," until I realized you were probably using LaTeX->Postscript->PDF by way of latex then dvips then ps2pdf. If you run it through pdflatex, it works fine.

It's almost certainly a page size problem: try running "texconfig" and changing your dvips paper size to "A4" (which is what you're using in the document). My guess: it's printing an A4 document on US-Letter paper, thereby cutting off the page numbers at the bottom.

It might help to use the "dvips" option to the document class, but in my case it still prints on letter paper unless you configure dvips to use A4.

[marchov]

Dear kaiserkarl13,

thank You very much!!! You safe me lot of time.

Indeed, the problem was in the paper print of dvi. The compiling with pdflatex worked too!, but on one hand side I have lot of ps-images, and on the other hand, I am using also \usepackage{tikz} for some graphs...

"texconfig" did the work!!! It took me some minutes to recognize, that in order to use it I have to change to root.

Thank You! Best regards

[localghost]

If I have understood the problem right, the option pagesize for the document class should do also here. It writes the necessary information to the output so that the page dimensions are set correctly. For details about this option please refer to the KOMA-Script user guide.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten