Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

[Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com>]

Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of 2011-06-27 02:04:40 +0200:
> 
> 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...
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Rick

My experience with cups is inverse, eg. I always get US-letter instead
of A4. Solution: no idea