On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:45:52PM -0800, Donald Arseneau wrote:

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

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With converting of \pdfpage{width,height} to truept:

These should all be handled like \hsize and \vsize, where they are set to ordinary scalable units in the format or config files, but set to "true" units in \m@g. I don't see why you need \mag@fix\pdfpagewidth

My format contains (teTeX) is generated on pdftex.ini: \input pdftexconfig\pdfoutput=1 \input plain \dump \endinput pdftexconfig.tex contains: \pdfoutput=1 \pdfcompresslevel=9 \pdfdecimaldigits=3 \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm \pdfpageheight=297 true mm \pdfhorigin=1 true in \pdfvorigin=1 true in \pdfpkresolution=600 \pdfminorversion=4 \endinput The test file \showthe\pdfpagewidth \mag\magstep5 \showthe\pdfpagewidth \null \end The result is two times 597.50787pt and the page size of the media box in the generated pdf file is: 1481.05 bp x 2094.62 bp --> much too large. Regarding \hsize, \vsize: any setting before \magnification is overwritten by the code of \magnification in plain.tex. Yours sincerely Heiko --