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Help - Cant print legal or a4 TeX

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From: therbert
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 16:37
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I urgently need help with a TeX problem - A paper is due
in Germany very soon and I can't print in A4 or legal format.

I can set up margins with \vsize and hsize just fine but TeXview
(2.0) will not show any page size except 8.5 x  11 in.  I can
see a line of text running below the solid line on the viewer
but I can't see the rest of the page or print it.

I have the 3.0 alpha TeX stuff but am reluctant to install it 
and wipe out an otherwise working system.  Certainly, the 3.0a
viewer does not work any better than the 2.0 viewer on the 2.0
generated fonts.

(I am also nervous about 3.0a as 3.0 TeXview will not show 
characters in a 2.0 file with Zapt Dingbats - I assume that that
is because I generated the .dvi file with 2.0 but I can't take
the chance right now on 3.0 unless I KNOW that it won't cause problems.)

Can anyone give me advice here?

Thanks in advance,

Tom Herbert
University of Miami
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
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From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
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Subject: Help - Cant print legal or a4 TeX
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Date: 11 Aug 92 12:37:49 EDT
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