Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice - SOLVED?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jun 27, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

> * Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> [2011-06-27 07:16:46 CEST]:
> > I don't know why this works, but I noticed that one of my machines  
> > had a
> > package called "cups-pdf" installed (which hauls in "libpaper- 
> > utils" --
> > more on this later...) and on that machine I got a choice of two
> > printers (as Greg notes above) one is "lp" (my networked postscript
> > printer) and one is "pdf" a virtual pdf printer.  On that machine,  
> > the
> > default paper size is "Letter".
>
> Out of curiosity, what's the content of your /etc/papersize file in  
> all
> your environments, especially the ones that give you the wrong result?

All machines, currently and since installation, have "letter" in /etc/ 
papersize.  It's on my checklist for installations.

The difference between the one and the others is the presence of the  
"cups-pdf" and "libpaper-utils" packages.


Rick