On 2/9/06, roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am struggling at writing a paper and i have to respect the options > "letterpaper" > which is default in IEEEtran.cls > but when i open the pdf by acrobat it defaults to > 8.26*11.69in > > instead of: > 8.50*11in > > my header contains: > > \documentclass[letterpaper]{IEEEtran} > > so i do not know if it may be a problem in dvipdf conversion after > that i generate the pdf from the dvi. > do you know how to set the option "letter" in dvipdf? > man page seems to be rather short...
dvipdf calls dvips behind the scenes, so if you pass it "-t letter", you should end up with an 8.5"x11" PDF document. If you want to change this globally, not just for this particular case, you can create a file "~/.dvipsrc" with the line t tetter -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com