On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:27:36 +0100
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find any way to set paper sizes to A4.

The weird thing is in the US, I constantly run into printers all
defaulting to A4 when I want US-Letter. I think there must be a
test backward somewhere in the paper handling code :-).

Anyway, I did finally decrypt the paper size default secret:

yum install libpaper
echo Letter > /etc/papersize

That gets libreoffice (at least) to default to Letter when
creating a new document. Presumably you could swap in A4
instead of Letter.

Will that necessarily work?
It seems to me that you could have a situation in which libreoffice
believes in A4, but the printer still believes in Letter.

When I had application/printer mismatch problems,
it was usually because the application
believed in A4 and the printer in Letter.
In such cases, the authour had usually added extra u's to the documentation.

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