$ locate geometry.cfg
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg
/usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-base-doc/latex/geometry/geometry.cfg
Neither of those has anything uncommented.
tmp1.tex is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\begin{document}
iuop
\end{document}
$ pdflatex -recorder tmp1
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./tmp1.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
nohyphenation, fr
ench, basque, loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/home/cpbl/texmf/tex/maybeMissing/geometry/geometry.cfg)) (./tmp1.aux)
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: pdftex
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./tmp1.aux)
)</usr/shar
e/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on tmp1.pdf (1 page, 10916 bytes).
Transcript written on tmp1.log.
The output tmp1.pdf is in A4 size.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 19 Nov 2012, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote:
>> /usr/bin/paperconf
>>
>> gives me:
>>
>> letter
>>
>> But that's not what I get when I use the "geometry" package without
>> specifying a paper size.
>
> Do you have a geometry.cfg hanging around?
>
> Run one document (Hellow World one) with -recorder and send the .fls
> file
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> `We've got to find out what people want from fire, how
> they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.'
> The crowd were tense. They were expecting something
> wonderful from Ford.
> `Stick it up your nose,' he said.
> `Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know,'
> insisted the girl, `Do people want fire that can be fitted
> nasally?'
> --- Ford "debating" what to do with fire with a marketing
> --- girl.
> --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
>
>
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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)
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