[OS X TeX] \special{papersize=7in,10in}

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

Solved! Thank you for making me look at the log file. "No match for special paper size found..." was indeed suspicious. I found a spurious config.ps file in ~/Library/texmf/dvips folder. Removed the file and now everything is working the way it should.

Thank you!

SGM

---- stephenmoye at cox.net wrote: 
> 
> ---- "Morten Høgholm" <morten.hoegholm at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > On 7/20/06, stephenmoye at cox.net <stephenmoye at cox.net> wrote:
> > > at work. As I expected, when running pdfTeX the preview was 7x10, and when runnning TeX+Ghostscript the preview was 8.5x10 (at home bothe were on 7x10). I am including both logs, the TeX+Ghostscript first:
> > 
> > Okay, so it uses the same files and all. Good! What I am especially
> > interested in is the output from the console window in TeXShop since
> > it also shows the output of the simpdftex (or whatever it is called)
> > script.
> 
> OK, here is the console output from both runs, TeX+Ghostscript first:
> 
> -------------------
> ### This is /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/simpdftex, Version $Revision: 2.18 $
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/latex MorePaperSize.tex
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> entering extended mode
> (./MorePaperSize.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, french, german, n
> german, dutch, italian, norsk, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loade
> d.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg))
> (./MorePaperSize.aux) [1] (./MorePaperSize.aux) )
> Output written on MorePaperSize.dvi (1 page, 372 bytes).
> Transcript written on MorePaperSize.log.
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R -Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdflatex.28826-1153397868/MorePaperSize.ps MorePaperSize.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2006.07.20:0817' -> /tmp/altpdflatex.28826-1153397868/MorePaperSize.ps
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips: no match for special paper size found; using default
> <tex.pro><texps.pro>. <cmr10.pfb>[1] 
> ### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.28826-1153397868/MorePaperSize.ps /tmp/altpdflatex.28826-1153397868/MorePaperSize.pdf
> ### Copying/moving pdf file /tmp/altpdflatex.28826-1153397868/MorePaperSize.pdf to MorePaperSize.pdf
> ### Succesfully generated MorePaperSize.dvi and MorePaperSize.pdf
> 
> ----------------
> pdfTeX:
> ----------------
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>  \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./MorePaperSize.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, french, german, n
> german, dutch, italian, norsk, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loade
> d.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg))
> (./MorePaperSize.aux) [1{/Users/sgm/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdfte
> x.map}] (./MorePaperSize.aux) )</usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/
> bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
> Output written on MorePaperSize.pdf (1 page, 9392 bytes).
> Transcript written on MorePaperSize.log.
> -----------------
> 
> Hmmm... "No match for special paper size found..." looks suspicious. Good grief -- I guess I'll have to look at the log messages at home to see how that matter is being handled differently there.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> SGM
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