[OS X TeX] TeXniscope DVI display bug?

[Claus Gerhardt]

Use the command
\special{papersize=8.5in,11in}

or whatever are the dimensions of letter paper immediately after the  
documentclass command.

Claus


On Nov 17, 2006, at 21:34, Christopher Menzel wrote:

> This *sounds* at first like a newbie problem, but I swear it  
> isn't! :-)  For reasons related to a problem I've been experiencing  
> with the simultaneous use of pdfsync and preview-latex, I am using  
> "latex -src-specials" to compile my LaTeX documents.  This, of  
> course, creates DVI files rather than PDF files.  I am using  
> TeXniscope to view these files, as it preserves source specials  
> info so I can have inverse search.  This works just fine, but for  
> one thing:  when I view the file with TeXniscope the file displays  
> on what appears to be A4 paper.  Now I am long since familiar with  
> the usual causes of this, and of course reran texconfig,  both from  
> the main menu and the DVIPS menu, just to make sure I am using  
> lettersize.  And if I compile my documents with pdflatex instead,  
> TeXniscope displays them correctly as lettersize.  Also, if I save  
> the file as a PDF when it's displaying A4-ishly in TeXniscope,  
> TeXniscope displays the resulting file  correctly!  And here's the  
> clincher:  xdvi displays the *very same* DVI file correctly.   
> TeXniscope warns that problems with DVI display are usually  
> traceable to dvipdfmx, which it allegedly uses for rendering DVI.   
> However, the TeXniscope preferences show the dvipdfm program to be / 
> usr/local/TeXLive/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/dvipdfm, and when I  
> run that from the command line on the raw DVI file, the resulting  
> PDF file also displays correctly.  (As an aside, dvipdfms also  
> creates a PDF file that displays as lettersize, but the fonts look  
> horrible.)
>
> Anybody have any idea what's going on here?
>
> Chris Menzel
>
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