[OS X TeX] TeXniscope DVI display bug?

[Claus Gerhardt]

As a further test I had TeXniscope convert the dvi file to pdf which  
again was 8.5x11.

Claus


On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:59, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> I typeset the document with altpdflatexc and opened the pdf file  
> (dvi->pdf) in Acrobat which clearly showed 8.5x11 in^2.
>
> The underlying tex is texlive 2005.
>
> Claus
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2006, at 1:43, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>
>> Well, that's an improvement, as it centers the text on the page  
>> both vertically and horizontally, which was not the case before  
>> (the text was slightly offset up and to the left) but I'm still  
>> getting what appears to be A4.  Here's a screenshot, showing a PDF  
>> (generated by pdflatex) side by side with the DVI file generated  
>> from the same LaTeX document.
>>
>> -chris
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>>
>>> 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, dvipdfmx 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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