From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5624 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FChne?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Acrobat viewer and A4 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:46:30 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200109131050.MAA14167@mail.zapnet.de> References: <029801c1389f$7f903fc0$6501a8c0@lap> <01090822353500.10870@levana> <002201c1391f$c59796a0$6501a8c0@lap> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396204 3226 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:03:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "Frans Goddijn" , "NTG-ConTeXt mailing list" In-Reply-To: <002201c1391f$c59796a0$6501a8c0@lap> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5624 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5624 Am Sonntag, 9. September 2001 13:03 schrieb Frans Goddijn: [..] > I need to do this again every time Acrobat starts up. It defaults on > "Letter" paper, the US size. I can't seem to find where to change the > default to A4. If I change it when the document is already on display > it doesn't make a diffrence in the view and there;s no "refresh" > screen option to se the result after these settings have been > modified. [..] As far as I can find out there is a bug in at least the Linux version of Acrobat Reader 4.0 (was present in 3.x also). I dont't know if the problems reported on Windows here have to do with it (but seems so). It is even a bit worse as described, because the Page Setup dialog _does_ remember the paper size, via a "*PaperSize:" entry in ~/.acrorc - but this affects only the combo box, _not_ the values actually used. These can still be viewed in the "Dimensions" area in the same dialog and are always 215.9 x 279.4 (if you use mm as default unit), i.e. Letter, on startup. Only if you change them manually or via the combo box (which requires changing to whatever else and then back to A4) you get the right values. This is a bug that should be easily removable but has been there for several versions over years. I tried to report it to Adobe some months ago but gave up after getting lost in their web jungle. Good example for the structural inferiority of closed source software, BTW. Anders