On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 19:45:04 GMT Mick wrote: > TLDR: Why is the content of my /etc/papersize being ignored?
Oops! It is not ignored: $ paperconf a4 Which leaves my problem unanswered. :-( > More detail below. > > On Friday, 22 December 2017 16:30:06 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:20:24 GMT you wrote: > > > On Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:01:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Is there a default page size setting in your desktop environment > > > > that > > > > > > > > could've changed? > > > > > > This problem is happening across different PCs, desktops/DEs and > > > different > > > applications. The common factor is they are all using CUPS, the same > > > brother driver and the default page size of A4. > > > > > > I'll have another poke tomorrow into the http GUI of the printer and > > > then > > > try to print with MSWindows to see what happens. > > > > MSWindows prints fine, just as Linux used to until recently. I printed a > > portrait layout from Firefox on both MSWindows and Linux. > > A number of you hinted at a paper size mismatch - between printer and PC. > You were correct! I foolishly believed what the cups GUI told me, despite > some strange behaviour I came across. > > In particular, modifying the printer using the cups GUI ends up changing > *some* of the default paper size fields from "A4" (as shown in the GUI) to > "Letter" - as shown in this extract of /etc/cups/ppd/HL-3140CW.ppd: > > grep Default /etc/cups/ppd/HL-3140CW.ppd > *DefaultColorSpace: RGB > *%DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse > *DefaultPageSize: A4 > *DefaultPageRegion: A4 > *DefaultImageableArea: Letter > *DefaultPaperDimension: Letter > [snip ...] > > Using the cups GUI to 'Set Default Settings' and (re)selecting "A4" seems to > work, as far as the ppd file is concerned. > > However, when I set the printer's Tray 1 from "Any" size to "A4" using its > control panel and tried to print a page with: > > lpr -o fit-to-page -o media=A4 -P 'HL-3140CW' test_print.txt > > the printer started blinking like a Christmas tree with the message: > > Size mismatch. Load Letter paper and press Go. > > So I looked in /etc/papersize and saw it is "a4": > > $ cat /etc/papersize > a4 > > Then I checked the $PAPERSIZE and $PAPERCONF variables both of which > appeared to not being set. Using paperconf to interrogate the default > setting I got this beauty: > > $ paperconf -d > letter > > What the ...?! > > So, why is /etc/papersize being ignored? > > PS. I noticed my locale has LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8". Not sure if relevant, > but thought of mentioning it just in case. -- Regards, Mick
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