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> just another small issue (Cygtexmacs): I have a document with A4 paper
> size exported as document.ps, which shows and prints correctly using
> ghostview.
> But "ps2pdf document.ps" produces a document with pages of the nonsense
> size 21,587x27,937cm and without the upper border. When I export the
> document directly to PDF, I get exactly the same problem.

This is annoying indeed.

> This can be corrected by hardcoding the "-sPAPERSIZE=a4" option into
> the ps2pdf script, but that's obviously not a nice solution.
>
> I guess that ghostscript somehow incorrectly guesses the paper size,
> but I have no idea why. Ghostview detects it correctly. For Latex
> generated PS files, ps2pdf also works flawlessly.
>
> So maybe TeXmacs could manually add the PAPERSIZE option to the ps2pdf
> command line?

Two things:

1. There are two programs which convert from postscript into pdf:
   ps2pdf and pstopdf. I am not sure which one is the best (and available
   on most platforms). Maybe someone on the list can make a detailed  
comparison.

2. The ps2pdf script is not part of TeXmacs. The best solution to the problem
   would be to compare the postscript output of LaTeX with the TeXmacs output
   on a simple "Hello world" text and investigate whether there are additional
   hints that we might put in the Postscript file (this is easy to implement).
   Maybe you can have a look.

Best wishes, Joris