Hello You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways. Also, you may try xetex (xelatex) instead of pdftex, if you write multilingual or if you like to use all available ttf, otf fonts of your system. sn
On Friday 02 May 2008 06:45:45 adam_taylor wrote: > Folks, > > I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx 1.5.1 > under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive. > > I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and > then wanted to make a PDF. I selected View > PDF (pdflatex), and then > looked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems > (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would > prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type > 3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4 problem by > setting the paper size in Document > Settings... to "Letter" and then > re-making the PDF, but it still seems to be A4. I tried the two other ways > of producing PDFs, dvipdfm and ps2pdf, and both solve the page size > problem, but not the bitmap font problem. Nevertheless, I like the fact > that pdflatex goes directly from the source LaTeX file to a PDF, so it > would be nice to get the page size right with pdflatex... > > Does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix these things? > > Thanks in advance, > Adam
