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> From: Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Dave Kuhlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:03:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#488210: odtwriter: Uses letter instead of A4 in en_AU locale
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 at 01:03:52AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > > Argh. We should fork/cite this bug to a new bug against one of the
> > > oo.org packages "wish for oo.org to honour papersize". Do you know
> > > which package this should be reported against? The source package
> > > "openoffice.org" apparently generates 150(!) binary packages.
>
> My guess is openoffice.org-core. I see this behavior in Writer, Calc
> and Draw (I haven’t tested the others), so I’d go for the common factor.
> I’m going to file a bug tomorrrow if nobody shouts here.
>
> > Michael and Trent -
> >
> > I apologize for not participating in this discussion a bit more. But,
> > I'm away visiting friends and relations for the weekend (and we're in
> > the middle of making blackberry jam as I write). Besides that, you
> > two are doing a super job of analyzing the problem. I'll get on it
> > when I return home today.
> >
> > One question -- I work on a Linux machine. But, the people we're
> > visiting have MS Windows (XP) and Mac X machines. Neither of them
> > have paperconf, as far as I can tell. Can we use the PAPERSIZE
> > environment variable as a fall-back? Are the conventions/rules for
> > using paperconf and PAPERSIZE written up somewhere? I'll have to
> > search and study.
>
> paperconf (package libpaper-utils) comes from Debian (though other
> GNU/Linux distributions also use it), so you can’t expect it to be
> present on Windows or Mac OS. I don’t know how these OSs handle default
> paper sizes, but relying on $PAPERSIZE is most probably useless (this
> variable won’t be set anywhere). You can either live with Letter as a
> fallback, if you use the patch I supplied, or find out how other systems
> cope with this stuff.
>
Michael and Trent -
I've applied Michael's patch and added the prepstyles script to the
distribution. I renamed it to rst2odt_prepstyles.py to avoid
possible name conflicts.
I'll try to release a new version in a day or two. I'll let you
know when I do.
I also added something to the documentation about this.
The relevant section is below.
Does this solve our problem? Trent, does it fit your needs?
- Dave
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Page size
---------
The default page size, in documents generated by ``odtwriter`` is
``Letter``. You can change this (for example to ``A4``) by using a
custom stylesheet. See `Defining and using a custom stylesheet`_
for instructions on how to do this.
On machines which support ``paperconf``, ``odtwriter`` can insert
the default page size for your locale. In order for this to work,
the following conditions must be met:
1. The program ``paperconf`` must be available on your system.
``odtwriter`` uses ``paperconf -s`` to obtain the paper size.
See ``man paperconf`` for more information.
2. The default page height and width must be removed from the
``styles.odt`` used to generate the document. A Python script
``rst2odt_prepstyles.py`` is distributed with ``odtwriter`` and
is installed in the ``bin`` directory. You can remove the page
height and width with something like the following::
$ rst2odt_prepstyles.py styles.odt
.. warning:: If you edit your stylesheet in ``oowriter`` and then
save it, ``oowriter`` automatically inserts a page height and
width in the styles for that (stylesheet) document. If that is
not the page size that you want and you want ``odtwriter`` to
insert a default page size using ``paperconf``, then you will
need to strip the page size from your stylesheet each time you
edit that stylesheet with ``oowriter``.
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