From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 02:16:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A628216A420; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:16:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from tomts28-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts28-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D983C43D45; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:16:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from mail.telcobridges.com ([67.70.237.76]) by tomts28-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060221021644.DVFV16377.tomts28-srv.bellnexxia.net@mail.telcobridges.com>; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:16:44 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.113] (modemcable237.137-80-70.mc.videotron.ca [70.80.137.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.telcobridges.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k1L2GgQV028483 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:16:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Message-ID: <43FA7800.1020906@videotron.ca> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:16:32 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060204) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Jahnke References: <1140450069.29556.34.camel@localhost> <43FA0599.9070200@FreeBSD.org> <1140461180.61480.9.camel@localhost> <43FA148C.7050108@FreeBSD.org> <1140462988.61480.16.camel@localhost> <43FA4CAF.6060305@FreeBSD.org> <1140481208.61480.58.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1140481208.61480.58.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A4 paper -- how to change?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:16:46 -0000 Frank Jahnke wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 18:11 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> I did everything I told you (but I don't use CUPS), and it worked for me. > > I have no explanation. > > Acroread7 and OO.o both use USLetter and print fine. The cups test page > works, as does that of the Gnome cups manager. None of the other Gnome > apps seem to. I am recompiling Gnome and apps that use its libraries so > that everything should be up-to-date as of four days ago. This will > take a while, as a lot of stuff has accumulated... I'll check back > then. > > Interestingly, the default selection of paper size in the two files I > edited at your suggestion were changed back to A4. So one of the > programs is resetting it (any idea which one?). > > And thank you, Joe, for the time. I admit this one is a bit > frustrating, as I can't print anything important from my main computer > at the moment, at least not from many of the applications I rely on. >> Joe I have the same problem with gnome and cups since gnome 2.8. I always assumed it was a pilot error and never got around to ask directly for a solution as I had a workaround. Just install the print/cups-lpr port with CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes defined and you'll be able to usr lpr directly to print in Letter instead of A4. Steph