A4 paper -- how to change??

Stephane E. Potvin sepotvin at videotron.ca
Tue Feb 21 18:31:14 PST 2006


Frank Jahnke wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:09 -0500, Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
> 
>>>> I have the same problem with gnome and cups since gnome 2.8. I always assumed
>>>> it was a pilot error and never got around to ask directly for a solution as I
>>>> had a workaround. Just install the print/cups-lpr port with
>>>> CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes defined and you'll be able to usr lpr directly to
>>>> print in Letter instead of A4.
> 
> Steph (and Joe),
> 
> Unfortunately your work-around did not work for me.  I have upgraded
> Gnome to 2.12.3 (on 6.0-RELEASE-p4) and everything else, including cups,
> to make sure every library was consistent and recent.  I redid the two
> edits that Joe suggested, and reinstalled cups-lpr with the cited flag.
> I don't think the flag was necessary, actually, since I had already
> tended to eliminating the conflict in lpd/cups print files.
> 
> I still get the printer requesting that I put in a tray of A4 paper.
> 
> I would really appreciate other advice on how to fix the problem.
> Otherwise, I'll file a bug report, which this is looking like it is.
> 
Did you select the Generic Postscript printer? It's the only one that
will give you the option to use lpr to print. You can also use a custom
location to select a particular printer instead of the default one.

Steph


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