I agree, but in the meantime you can try the suggestion form Pascal De Vuyst in
this thread: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+question/6846
it does the trick, but it is clumsy and irritating.
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Evince chooses default paper size the wrong way
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/
Well I don't know what you consider a bug, it just seems to me that
paper size is a printer specific and not country specific setting. At
the office where I work the printer would stall every time it got a job
with the wrong paper type.
For the non-savvy linux user messing around in .profile is a