Ah, sorry, I sometimes forget where I’ve already mentioned things :-).
Regarding width: I haven’t been doing anything special with the width. For some reason, it seems that most of my PDFs end up with a “natural” reasonable-looking width in terms of proportions. This may be affected by some default I’ve set somewhere long ago and forgotten, perhaps something that can be influenced with defaults …; I only know that my scripts don’t have anything in them that sets the width explicitly.
What is the problem you are running into?
Thanks for the pointers to scripts – I’ll definitely take a closer look at that.