How to export to an A4 PDF using Org mode
I am back with sharing knowledge that I spent way too long to gain.
By default, emacs creates US Letter PDFs. I am not in the US, I don't have US Letter sheets, and I prefer to have A4 in every single aspect.
But I know nothing about LaTeX, so would I have to export to ODT and then change the page style to A4?
Now that I have the solution, I don't.
And for your sake I will share the solution with you.
If you have a better one, please don't be afraid to tell me, so we can all benefit from it.
You'll need
- Emacs with Org mode installed
- LaTeX, or TeXlive in my case¹
What you do is add the following LaTeX options to your Org document:
#+LATEX_CLASS: article #+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [a4paper]
That's it.
¹ I didn't know TeXlive was so massive before I tried to install it. 2 Gigabytes?! I might actually be better off converting Org documents to ODT and then PDF...
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emacs