Re: teTeX 1.0 on Sun to 3.0 on Mac weirdness

> Hi,
> 
>      I've had teTeX 1.0 installed on my Sun workstation under Solaris for
> millenia and have been using pdflatex along with Ppower4 and foiltex 
> to generate all my scientific presentations for the past several years. 
> Having recently obtained a Mac Powerbook running OS 10.3.8, I installed 
> teTeX 3.0 using fink and have attempted to recompile my presentation 
> files. The weird part is that my slides on the Mac wind up being 
> consistently oversized, spanning more than their designated slide. This 
> doesn't seem to happen to my text documents with figures, only my 
> foils stuff. The slide size hasn't changed (still letter-sized), it just 
> seems like some default parameter is different between my two 
> teTeX installations. I have no idea where to start looking to fix this 
> problem and I've had no luck finding anyone with a similar problem 
> through Google. Does anyone have any ideas or should I resign myself 
> to re-editing all my presentation files so that they'll produce the 
> right-sized output on the Mac?

you presumably had pdftex configured for letter paper on the old
system; the default, of course, is international standard paper sizes.

you need to change the configuration paper size.  if the mac version
has it, try texconfig:

  $ texconfig pdftex
  Usage: texconfig pdftex paper PAPER

  Valid PAPER settings:
    a4 letter

if the mac version doesn't have that (command-line) utility, ask
again.