On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new > > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in > > the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it, > > the accepted way to set this is with "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1". But > > this has no effect on LibreOffice. > > > > To reproduce the problem: > > > > In Gnome go to the "Applications->Office->LibreOffice Writer" menu. > > In the new document window, go to "File->Print" menu, click on the > > "General" tab, click on the "Properties" button. Notice that it says > > "A4" for paper size. > > > > If I change that, I can print on Letter paper OK. But the next time I > > open a document, I get the same thing. > > > > What's the magic I'm missing? > > > > I've googled; I've searched the help documentation, I've found lots of > > suggestions. but none that work... > > Not sure if its relevant, I have one additional step involved here. Before > clicking on 'properties' I select from a list of printers available, i have > more than one installed on my system. Highlighting a printer I can set > paper size, different sizes for different printers here. Its sticky. > > I am using LO from Debian backports on Squeeze.
I should add, my printers are managed through the cups, 'localhost:631' web interface. I set default options for my printers there, ie. papersize. i haven't tried changing paper sizes in LO from the defaults I setup in cups. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
