[Tex/LaTex] Using US Letter Paper with newlfm

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I am using the newlfm package, and want my output to use a US Letter 8.5×11 page size. Unfortunately, I'm getting A4!

I have the following documentclass declaration. The addition of "letterpaper" did not help.

\documentclass[stdletter, letterpaper]{newlfm}

I am new to LaTeX, so I'm still mostly lost. I checked a couple other projects, where the simple \documentclass{article} results in the 8.5×11 size being used.

I am using MikTex 2.8 on WinXP.

Best Answer

After taking a break and then searching better, I came across this answer by @Stefan Kottwitz. Adding the following line to my file successfully output the correct US Letter paper size!

\usepackage[papersize={8.5in,11in}]{geometry}

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Choose the paper format you'll be using more frequently at install time (TeX Live allows to choose between Letter paper and A4, and probably also MiKTeX).
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With this call, geometry will only do the required steps for announcing the desired paper format to the output driver.

The default paper size can be changed, in TeX Live, via tlmgr:

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The beamer class sets paper height using geometry, so while there isn't an interface to override the settings you can just force the issue after loading the class.

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\begin{frame}
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\end{document}

If you want the aspect ratio without the full page size then you'll need to work out the papersize yourself. For example, the standard beamer settings have a paper height of 9.6 cm and width of 12.8 cm. Keeping say the width the same we might do

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