Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@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.
Whoops! Sorry, wrong mailing list. I was just suggesting that a few
hours ago to a Scientific Linux user, my apologies.
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