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