tlmgr paper

Manage paper size options of an TeX Live installation. More information: https://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html.

• Show the default paper size used by all TeX Live programs:

tlmgr paper

• Set the default paper size for all TeX Live programs to A4:

sudo tlmgr paper {{a4}}

• Show the default paper size used by a specific TeX Live program:

tlmgr {{pdftex}} paper

• Set the default paper size for a specific TeX Live program to A4:

sudo tlmgr {{pdftex}} paper {{a4}}

• List all available paper sizes for a specific TeX Live program:

tlmgr {{pdftex}} paper --list

• Dump the default paper size used by all TeX Live programs in JSON format:

tlmgr paper --json