[posted and mailed] Nick DeClario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:3F147A52.6060609 @guardiandigital.com:
> Hey guys, > > I have this document that I need to format to be 5.5"x8.5" with 0.375" > margins all around. > > I have the paper size set to 5.5"x8.5" and the margins set at 0.375" in > the documents properties. I export it to PDF and it makes it a full > 8.5"x11" sheet. So then I exported it a PostScript and used 'psnup' > with the margin (-m) option set to 1.75" to center the page without > resizing when converted to PDF. This works. > > However the document is off centered by 0.50" on the page. I try > changing the margins in the Lyx settings, I try changing the margin > setting in psnup to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions on what > I am doing wrong? > > The version of LyX I am using is 1.1.6fix4 and Ghostscript 6.51. > > Thanks, > -Nick > > I'm not clear on where the off-centeredness is showing up: in displayed versions or in printed versions; using which viewer? If it's in printed output from Acrobat Reader, you might want to go into the print settings and uncheck "autorotate and center" and/or set page scaling to "none". (This is in version 6.0; option labels in 5.0 might be slightly different, but the same options are there.) I've had adventures with that before; it seems that Acrobat interprets a portion of the margins produced by LyX as part of the document being scaled/centered. Also, you might check that the paper size in Ghostscript is 5.5x8.5. Even with the right paper size is set in LyX, I *think* the output can come out wrong if Ghostscript uses the wrong size. (I've had adventures with this: my copy of Ghostview defaults to A4, I live in an 8.5x11 world, and I keep forgetting to change it.) -- Paul ************************************************************************* Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ************************************************************************* Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE
