buggy testpage.tex (wrong PDF page size)?

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Vincent,

> unset Debian/unstable (TeX Live packages 2024.20240706-1) with

Not a TeX Live question, but Debian.

> \papertype=a5paper
> \doublesided=n
> 
> The contents assume A5, but the paper size itself is still A4

\papertype has no influence on the physical paper that is expected.

Debian uses a special paper support, you can select the default
paper with 
	paper-conf
or so (AFAIR), which for you is most probably set to A4.

> Adding \usepackage{geometry} seems to fix the issue.

Correct solution.

Best regards

Norbert

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