Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

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.


-- 
Peace,

Greg