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pdfjam seems to change the margins when printing A5 pages to A4 as booklet #37
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My usual approach to diagnosing a problem like this is to run again with |
Thanks for the hint! So in my case,
No mention that I can find of any margins. I tried adding the I've written to Andreas Matthias with a bug report for pdfpages. |
I found the bug:
That should be |
For example, by treating warnings as errors? Would this be a reasonable thing to do with pdfjam? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3244908/how-do-i-treat-latex-warnings-as-errors |
There's one remaining problem I realize I haven't gotten to the bottom of: I shouldn't've needed to specify the paper size in the first place, as pdfjam should have the right default. When I execute
So either TeXLive, or Ubuntu's packaging of it, have not wired it up with appropriate defaults? (Looking at the rest of the |
I agree, that would be nice. |
Well, LaTeX does tend to give a lot of warnings. So this might not be a great idea I suspect. Worth noting that the values allowed for |
Yes, I thought about that: in general it gives a lot of warnings, but I'm not sure that it should for a document constructed by pdfjam. Maybe worth a try… |
Oh, this is indeed unfortunate, and not intended. I can confirm that the same holds on my fresh install of TeXLive in Fedora 33. The relevant part of the README at https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam#config tells someone how to configure their installation of pdfjam. But of course TeXLive does not actually do any of that; instead it just keeps a copy of the |
If I run:
where
foo.pdf
is A5, then the A5 pages are not simply impressed on the A4 sheet; the margins are changed. See jenom/pdfbook2#10The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: