xpdf throws error

[Joerg van den Hoff]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 04:23:34PM +0000, Eric Hall wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:26:16PM +0200, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > not sure, whether its right to ask, but:
> > 
> > I just managed to install xpdf (universial variant). It works OK but at
> > each start gives the error
> > 
> > Error: No paper information available - using defaults
> > 
> > in the terminal window _although_ I have 
> > 
> > psPaperSize		A4
> > 
> > in my .xpdfrc.
> > 
> > using `xpdf -paper A4 file.pdf' does the same. my older xpdf (having other
> > problems related to proper zooming) still from `fink' days did'nt do
> > this. while the error does no visible harm (display's OK), it's
> > still irritating to always get "errors" at program start.
> > 
> 
> 	I've had success setting the 'PAPERSIZE' environment
> variable (PAPERSIZE=letter; export PAPERSIZE).  
> 
> 
> 		-eric
> 
> 
thanks. yes that works. but it seems the other ways should, too. especially,
the resource file `.xpdfrc' would be my favorite place to set such things.

does anybody know why command line and resource file don't work with
this xpdf package?


joerg