#1019236 Why does mere inclusion of pstricks change A4 to letter?

Package:
texlive-pstricks
Source:
texlive-pstricks
Submitter:
Peter Mueller
Date:
2023-07-09 01:03:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1019236#5
Date:
2022-09-06 01:47:11 UTC
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Package:  texlive-pstricks Version: 2021.20211217-1
My stock TeX Live version 2021.20211217-1 is set up to produce A4 output by default.
Reproduce:
1) Create mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{pst-node}% letter with this, A4 without this. pstricks or pst-all would do as well
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}
2) Run
latex mwe
dvipdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY mwe.dvi
pdfinfo mwe.pdf
3) Observe that the resulting PDF has letter format. If we don't use pst-node/pstricks/pst-all, we get A4 as usual.
Simply using a drawing package and not specifying anything about the paper (such as the class options a4paper or letterpaper) should not incur a deviation from the system-default paper format.
#1019236#14
Date:
2023-05-22 20:14:27 UTC
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On 06.09.2022 03:47, Peter Mueller wrote:

Hi,
Can you confirm that the package in unstable still has the issue?

H.
#1019236#19
Date:
2023-07-06 10:24:27 UTC
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found 1019236 texlive-pstricks/2022.20230122-4
thanks
Don't know about unstable (I cannot risk an upgrade now), but as for the texlive-pstricks 2022.20230122-4 containing pst-node.sty 2012/09/18 v1.01, the bug still exists.
#1019236#26
Date:
2023-07-06 18:46:49 UTC
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On 06.07.2023 12:24, Peter Mueller wrote:

Hi,
Do you have the time to discuss this with the upstream author. I don't
have. Sorry!

Hilmar
#1019236#31
Date:
2023-07-09 01:00:28 UTC
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The next might sound as if it were a silly excuse, but the Web interface of my e-mail server has an issue right now (a few minutes before, everything worked just fine); I can only write an “answer to all” (but not construct any e-mails to new folks).  This may or may not repair itself later; I don't know.  Thus, could I kindly ask you to please send this to pstricks@tug.org (just a copy and paste; if you wish to, Cc also Herbert Voss and Rolf Niepraschk; their e-mails are in pst-node.sty): “ Dear PSTricks maintainers, Might we kindly draw your attention to http://bugs.debian.org/1019236 ? My stock TeX Live version 2022.20230122-3 with texlive-pstricks 2022.20230122-4 is set up to produce A4 output by default. Reproduce: 1) Create mwe.tex containing \documentclass{article} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage{pst-node}% letter with this, A4 without this. pstricks or pst-all would do as well. Checked with pst-node.sty version 2012/09/18 v1.01. \begin{document} test \end{document} 2) Run latex mwe dvipdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY mwe.dvi pdfinfo mwe.pdf 3) Observe that the resulting PDF has letter format. If we don't use pst-node, pstricks, or pst-all, we get A4 as usual. Simply using a drawing package and not specifying anything about the paper (such as the class options a4paper or letterpaper) should not incur a deviation from the system-default paper format. Gratefully! ”
06.07.2023, 20:46, Preuße, Hilmar < mailto:hille42@web.de hille42@web.de >
On 06.07.2023 12:24, Peter Mueller wrote: Hi, > Don't know about unstable (I cannot risk an upgrade now), but as for > the texlive-pstricks 2022.20230122-4 containing pst-node.sty > 2012/09/18 v1.01, the bug still exists. > Do you have the time to discuss this with the upstream author. I don't have. Sorry! Hilmar -- sigfault