[OS X TeX] Paper size in pdflatex

[Joe Miro]

I am writing a book and I want to generate a PDF document with a paper 

size of 170 mm x 240 mm. If I put the commands

  \setlength{\pdfpageheight}{240 mm}

  \setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{170 mm}

in the document it gets ignored by GW's pdflatex (the paper size comes 

out US letter). Using Google I have found a web page with instructions 

on how to modify two files ($TEXBASE/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg and 

$TEXBASE/texmf/tex/latex/misc/Vmargin.sty) to achieve the paper size 

change. I haven't tried it, and I would rather prefer not to, given 

that I only want to change the paper size of this document. Is there an 

option or some easy way to set the paper size for only one document?



Thanks.



Joe



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Joe Miró Julià                           Dept. de Matemàtiques i 

Informàtica

e-mail: joe.miro at uib.es                  Campus UIB

URL: http://bioinfo.uib.es/~joemiro      07122 Palma de Mallorca

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