change to letter size on teXnicCenter & MikTex
Solution 1
Here is what worked for me, regardless of the documentclass or other packages used.
Right after \begin{document} I put these two lines:
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{8.5in}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}
Solution 2
The default paper size for MikTeX is contained in some configuration file somewhere in the MikTeX directory. You can change it by starting up MikTeX's "Settings (Admin)" program, but you probably already tried that. TeXnicCenter has nothing to do with it.
You can always specify to use letter size paper, overriding the default, by adding the letterpaper
option to your \documentclass
command:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
Solution 3
The paper size you specify is only used if your LaTeX document doesn't specify one. Even if you didn't do this in your documents, the class or one of the packages you are using may do this.
To explicitly choose your papersize either use
\documentclass[letterpaper]{scrreprt}
or
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
Other possible paper sizes are a0paper
, a1paper
, ..., a6paper
, b0paper,
b1paper, ...,
b6paper,
letterpaper,
legalpaper,
executivepaper`.
lulala
Updated on May 23, 2020Comments
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lulala about 4 years
How come TeXicCenter and MiKTeX always generate an A4 size pdf paper?
I reinstalled both MiKTeX and TeXicCenter and I made sure that I selected "Letter" to be my default paper size. Nothing changes.
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lulala over 14 yearsI am getting this.. Latex warning: Unused global option(s): [letterpaper].
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ptomato over 14 yearsWhat is the
documentclass
you are using? -
lulala over 14 years{acm_proc_article-sp}.. acm format. tried using [letter], not working
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ptomato over 14 yearsAha. This class is apparently notorious. See: acm.org/sigs/publications/sigfaq#a5 See also: tstotts.net/blog/archives/2009/12/12/latex_letter_paper