Change Document Format from Letter to A4

[Mark Knoop]

On 22/01/07, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 07:56, Patrick Steiner wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> thanks for your help here is my output
> >>
> >> $ locale LC_PAPER
> >> 279
> >> 216
> >> UTF-8
> >>
> >> is this correct?
> >
> > That's the same as my default of letter size.  I believe those are the
> > millimeter sizes of letter paper.
> >
>
> No it isn't. I think 216 is a typo since I have:
>
> $ locale LC_PAPER
> 297
> 210
> UTF-8
>
> which is the millimeter size of A4 paper and yet default paper size  with
> acroread is letter.

Then it looks like acroread doesn't obey your locale settings. The OP
on this thread is using evince.

-- 
Mark Knoop