Bug 559257

Fresh from the TeX Live mailing list: 

> Hi,
>
> just fresh taken from a user report (http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559257)
> the file
>
>  \documentclass{article}
>  \usepackage[mag=1500]{geometry}

Try: \usepackage[dvipdfm,mag=1500]{geometry}

The documentation suggests the driver should be automagically detected, so this
has a buggy flavour.

>  \begin{document}
>  Hi
>  \end{document}

I get:

gala:Werner gwhite$ xelatex t
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)
entering extended mode
[...]
(./t.aux)
*geometry detected driver: dvipdfm*
[1] (./t.aux) )
Output written on t.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on t.log.
gala:Werner gwhite$ open t.pdf
gala:Werner gwhite$ pdfinfo t.pdf
Creator:         XeTeX output 2009.12.03:1106
Producer:       xdvipdfmx (0.7.8)
CreationDate:   Thu Dec  3 11:06:59 2009
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      1376.99 x 1781.99 pts
File size:      2003 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4

Just an other reply at

  http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-December/023887.html

from tex-live@tug.org only for documentation

Thanks for the reply, Werner, but I'm afraid that the workaround doesn't work, as your own pdfinfo report shows: page size is wrong.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipdfm,a4paper,truedimen,mag=1500]{geometry}
\begin{document}
Hi
\end{document}

pdfinfo shows from a.pdf when compiled with xelatex and dvipdfm:

Page size:      892.9 x 1262.81 pts

and when compiled with pdflatex or xelatex and pdftex:

Page size:      595.28 x 841.89 pts (A4)

I'm reporting the issue to Hideo Umeki, since it seems that the issue should be fixed in the xetex driver from geometry.

Thanks,


Pablo

It seems that Heiko Oberdiek has also realized that magnification is wrong with the dvipdfm driver and he offered a patch to use the pdftex dirver for geometry with XeLaTeX:

http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-December/023888.html

Just in case it might help,


Pablo

This have to wait upto the point where upstream has accepted this
change otherwise TeX Live on openSuSE would become incompatible.

It seems that the fix for this might take longer than expected.

A newer version of hyperref has been released and I think that the patch above doesn't work with it.

I guess that until this is fixed in a proper way in both geometry and hyperref, providing the patch above with the current version in the openSUSE packaging would avoid problems to end-users.

Thanks for your help,,


Pablo

Created attachment 338596 [details]
geometry.sty -- experimental beta version 0.5 from Hideo Umeki

please test out this style file.  Simply copy if to
the same location as the test latex file and retry.

Created attachment 338802 [details]
geometry.sty beta 0.5 modifes dimensions

Beta version doesn't work fine, since it changes page dimensions.

Here you have the changed page dimensions with a working document (newer file is the beta version of geometry):

 -------------------- Geometry parameters
 paper: a4paper
+layout: a4paper
 landscape: --
 twocolumn: --
 twoside: true
 asymmetric: --
-h-parts: 68.2873pt, 0.7\paperwidth , 102.43098pt (default)
-v-parts: 96.57776pt, 0.7\paperheight , 144.86665pt (default)
+h-parts: 70.20584pt, 0.7\Gm@layoutwidth , 105.3088pt (default)
+v-parts: 90.85461pt, 0.7\Gm@layoutheight , 136.28198pt (default)
 hmarginratio: 2:3
 vmarginratio: 2:3
 lines: --
@@ -501,11 +518,11 @@
 -------------------- Page layout dimensions and switches
 \paperwidth  569.05511pt
 \paperheight 804.80649pt
-\textwidth  398.33684pt
-\textheight 563.36208pt
-\oddsidemargin  -0.54102pt
-\evensidemargin 33.60268pt
-\topmargin  -4.12434pt
+\textwidth  409.5282pt
+\textheight 529.97766pt
+\oddsidemargin  1.37753pt
+\evensidemargin 36.4805pt
+\topmargin  -9.84749pt
 \headheight 12.0pt
 \headsep    19.8738pt
 \footskip   30.0pt
@@ -517,7 +534,7 @@
 \voffset 0.01117pt
 \mag 1050
 \@twosidetrue \@mparswitchtrue 
-(1in=72.27pt, 1cm=28.45pt)
+(1in=72.27pt, 1cm=28.4528pt)
 -----------------------

Complete diff in attachment. Reporting also to Hideo Umeki.

Thanks,


Pablo

Werner,

I think the bug is already fixed, since TL2009 includes geometry 5.0.

Since the following releases were also bugfixes only (see bellow, from http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/changes.txt), I wonder wheter it should be included in TL2009.

Thanks for your help,


Pablo


2010-03-13 Release 5.3
  * Fixed missed initialization of \Gm@lines.

2010-03-01 Release 5.2
  * Fixed a bug that the papersize setting explicitly specified
    with \geometry or \usepackage in the preample didn't come to
    \newgeometry.
  * Added \mag offset adjustment for \newgeometry.
  * Added 'onecolumn' option as a shorthand for 'twocolumn=false'.
  * Changed the format of the verbose mode.

2010-02-15 Release 5.1
  * Fixed a bug that caused an error in 'pass' option.

done ... nevertheless I do *no* like to update every sub package
of TeXLive ... this may cause other bugs due side effects (as
seen with this update).