A4 paper -- how to change??

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 20 10:07:43 PST 2006


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Frank Jahnke wrote:
> Over the weekend I changed my printing system from lpd to cups.  Most
> everything works right: six computers of mixed operating systems can now
> print on a remote Ethernet printer.
> 
> My problem is that many Gnome applications (such as Evince, Evolution)
> insist on printing on A4 paper, and there is no option to change it to
> "letter" in the print dialog boxes as was possible with lpd.  The
> printer then asks to have A4 paper installed, and does not print the
> job, as I have no A4 paper tray nor do I want one.
> 
> I've poked around GConf looking for an appropriate field, and have been
> unable to find a default that includes A4.  The Gnome cups manager is
> set to "letter."  Any advice would be most appreciated.  The computer
> runs 6.0, and Gnome is a recent 2.12

The default paper size looks to be stored in
/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/libgnomeprint/2.12.1/globals.xml.  The Option Id
is PhysicalSize.  Changing the Default value to USLetter should achieve
what you want.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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