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My texlive debian is set to a4 paper size (paperconf -p a4). Using pdflatex on the following simple document

\documentclass{article}

%\usepackage{svg}


\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

I either get a pdf in a4 size (without the svg package) or letter size (with svg package).

Is this a feature or a bug and how do I fix it?

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  • latex always defaults to usletter, use \documentclass[a4paper]{article} so the pdf size matches. This is a feature of the graphics package. (Until a driver-specific back end is chosen by graphics, latex can not set the media size as it requires different commands for each back end,) – David Carlisle Oct 05 '21 at 16:36
  • @DavidCarlisle Sort of. Adding [a4paper] to the class fixes it. However my svg package does not seem to have a [nosetpagesize] option. – user1583209 Oct 05 '21 at 17:16
  • You should use a4paper always in any case whether or not you are using these packages otherwise the layout is designed for US Letter. svg is only involved because it loads graphics so you can pass that option to graphics, but why would you want an incorrect layout? I just added nosetpagesize as a get out for some specialist classes that were taking care of the page size size themselves and needed to disable user access to changing anything. – David Carlisle Oct 05 '21 at 18:11

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Referring to @David Carlisle, just pass option nosetpagesize to package graphicx before loading svg. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend setting the paper size explicitly with a4paper. Otherwise the media size of the document will not match the paper size and an incorrect layout will certainly be used. The output of the given MWE should make this clear.

\documentclass{article}
\PassOptionsToPackage{nosetpagesize}{graphicx}
\usepackage{svg}

\begin{document}
pagewidth:pageheight -- 
\ifluatex
\the\pagewidth:\the\pageheight\par
\else
\the\pdfpagewidth:\the\pdfpageheight\par
\fi
paperwidth:paperheight -- \the\paperwidth:\the\paperheight\par
\end{document}
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