[ale] papersize

[Adrin]

If this is a Laser printer.  
I would check the printer, I find printer settings off all the time
because someone is slamming the tray back in the printer and the tray
stops move.

Adrin


On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 23:43 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> This has me puzzled. I have /etc/papersize set to letter yet gedit
> still spits out a call to print to A4. Which causes my printer to
> puke.
> 
> WTF?!?!?
> 
> So I look in ~/.gnome2 and poke in the gedit files. All the ones that
> _have_ a paper size are set to letter.
> 
> There is no config in setting in gedit that adjust the papersize. It's
> handled by the gnome printing engine.
> 
> which reads the system variable $PAPERSIZE which is set by the
> /etc/papersize file!!!
> 
> AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!
> 
> So did some European coder hardcode A4 as a default paper size?
> 
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