Hi Christopher with TeX Live 2012, tex etc honors the setting of paperconf. Please check that there you have letter selected!
Norbert (how happy one could be if letter just simply disappeared) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to texlive-base in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071760 Title: On upgrade to 12.10, my pdflatex documents come out in A4 size, not letter Status in “texlive-base” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I don't suppose I've filed the bug in the right package, but: Under 12.04, my latex documents were compiled correctly for my region: into letter paper. After upgrade to 12.10, they are coming out as A4. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: texlive 2012.20120611-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 26 09:44:36 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-03 (388 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: texlive-base UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/1071760/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp