[Journal] PDF Page Size Problem?

[Markus Neteler]

On 4/14/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On 13-Apr-07, at 9:34 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On 4/8/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> >> I'm getting some peculiar results from PDF export in LaTeX...
> >> I see that our main document specifies:
> >>    \documentclass[a4paper]{report}
> >> So I assume we are using A4 paper size?
> >>
> >> Yet the output PDF shows page sizes as 21 x 29.7cm !  Obviously way
> >> larger that A4 or Letter.
> >> Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
> >
> > Tyler, all,
> >
> > the GRASS team is currently preparing a flyer and facing the same
> > problem. Here a comment which will interest you:
>
> My problem is actually a bug I think, when trying to merge a single
> A4 PDF page (tex_support/tyler_cover.pdf) into the rest of the
> Journal document - it somehow sees the single page as a way smaller
> size (i.e. 50% smaller).

I have fixed that in SVN using \enlargethispage{}.

> I had no plans to leave A4, but was just confused because my cover
> page came out scaled down to a weird size.  I would love to also
> produce a Letter size version after we are all done.  Is it as easy
> as changing the document class option?

I don't think so since the entire layout will end up differently
(maybe I am wrong).

Glynn wrote in the GRASS ML:
"The logical thing to do would be to format the document to fit on both
 A4 and Letter paper."

This is probably the best thing to do in order to avoid extra work.

Markus