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paper=size
paper=orientation
v3.00 The paper option is the central element for paper-size selection in KOMA - Script. Size sup-
ports the American formats letter, legal, and executive. In addition, it supports the ISO
formats of the series A, B, C, and D, for example A4 or — written in lower case — a4.
Landscape orientations are supported by specifying the option one more time with the value
v3.02c landscape or seascape. The only difference between landscape and seascape is that that
the application dvips rotates landscape pages by -90 °, while it rotates seascape pages by
+90 °. Thus seascape is particularly useful whenever a PostScript viewer shows landscape
pages upside-down. In order for the difference to have an effect, you must not deactivate the
pagesize option described below.
v3.01b Additionally, the size can also be specified either in the form width :height or in the form
v3.22 height :width . Which value is taken as the height and which as the width depends on the
orientation of the paper. With paper=landscape or paper=seascape, the smaller value is
the height and the larger one is the width . With paper=portrait, the smaller value is the
width and the larger one is the height .
Note that until version 3.01a the first value was always the height and the second one the
width . From version 3.01b through version 3.21, the first value was always the width and
the second one the height . This is important if you use compatibility settings (see option
version, section 2.5, page 32).

Example: Suppose you want to print an ISO-A8 index card in landscape orientation. The
margins should be very small and no header or footer will be used.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[headinclude=false,footinclude=false,
paper=A8,landscape]{typearea}
\areaset{7cm}{5cm}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\section*{Supported Paper Sizes}
letter, legal, executive, a0, a1 \dots\ %
b0, b1 \dots\ c0, c1 \dots\ d0, d1 \dots
\end{document}
If the file cards have the special format (height:width) 5 cm : 3 cm, this can be
achieved using the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[headinclude=false,footinclude=false,%
paper=landscape,paper=5cm:3cm]{typearea}
\areaset{4cm}{2.4cm}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}