[OS X TeX] magnification in the geometry package

[André Bellaïche]

Dear all,

Thank you for your help about [OS X TeX] Incompatibility between  
geometry and TeX+ghostscript.

There is another problem with the geometry package I am not able to  
solve by myself: with the magnification option on, there is no way to  
get correct left and right margins. I mean: the left margin on the  
left page should be equal to the right margin on the right page, and  
the right margin on the left page should be equal to the left margin  
on the right page. But neither holds.

This is a minimal example :

% 
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\documentclass[twoside,12pt]{book}

\usepackage 
[mag=800,paperwidth=15truecm,paperheight=22.5truecm,textwidth=11truecm,t 
extheight=17truecm,inner=17truemm]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Text}

\def\text{Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text.  
Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text.  
Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text. Text.}
\def\Text{\text \text \text \text \text \text \text \par}
\def\TEXT{\Text \Text \Text \Text \Text \Text \Text \Text }
\TEXT

\end{document}
% 
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If you use

\usepackage 
[mag=800,paperwidth=18.75cm,paperheight=28.125cm,textwidth=13.75cm,texth 
eight=21.25cm,inner=21.25mm]{geometry}

or

\usepackage 
[paperwidth=18.75cm,paperheight=28.125cm,textwidth=13.75cm,textheight=21 
.25cm,inner=21.25mm,mag=800]{geometry}

you get exactly the same result and the same bad margins.

Note. I am using pdflatex.

André Bellaïche






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