On Oct 21, 2014 1:05 PM, "Kenneth Jacker" <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu> wrote:
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> First time I've used the LaTeX exporting ...
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> I have a hunch the default paper size is "A4".
> Margins are *way* too wide ...
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Default latex tends to look like that, so you'd be better off viewing the
document properties from your viewer to verify.

If it's a4, I set mine when I installed latex via texlive, but you can set
it via your org doc:
-http://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Page_Layout

There's been some other posts on the ML about making PDF export look
better. Example:
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/85428

That has my setup a few posts in which I'm pretty happy with.

John

> How do I change it to "letter"?
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> I tried a few things, but they don't seem to be changing anything!
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John

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> Thanks for your help,
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> Prof Kenneth H Jacker (ret)   khj@cs.appstate.edu
> Computer Science Dept         www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
> Appalachian State Univ
> Boone, NC  28608  USA
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