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pandoc: How to set geometry driver

I have pandoc installed in Debian 10 and in Ubuntu 20.04. When I run pandoc it uses different geometry drivers.

# Debian 10
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: xetex

# Ubuntu 20.04
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: pdftex

Is there a way to force pandoc to use pdftex as the geometry driver? It seems xetex is causing me some problems.

Solution

  • It seem this can be done using the -V parameter as such:

    pandoc -V geometry:driver=pdftex -s test.md -o test.pdf