On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtr...@gci.net> wrote: >> >> >> 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. > > That interface does rude things to goats. For the second time today, > I'll mention Eric Raymond's essay on "The Luxury of Ignorance" for a > description of just how horrible that interface, and it hasn't > improved noticeably since that essary in 2004: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html > > Instead, install and use system-config-printer, which is being well > maintained by our favorite upstream vendor.
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