Re: evolution paper size

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On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:21 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:11 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 16:11 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > Have an issue with newly installed F7 and evolution with a cups print
> > > server for the network.
> > > 
> > > Nowhere in evolution can you choose page size when you print - as far as
> > > I can tell.
> > > 
> > > It appears the default page size is A4 and that setting is somewhere in
> > > the bowels of GNOME and I cannot figure out how to switch it to US
> > > Letter.
> > > 
> > > Anyone want to toss me a bone...it would seem to be a simple thing but I
> > > have 30 minutes chasing my tail around and I can't figure out how to get
> > > at something like this - even with the most crude gconftool-2
> > > 
> > I have noticed somewhat the same thing. I would think this could be
> > changed by the lpoptions command. 
> ----
> No suggestion in the bugzilla reference from deerfieldtech that
> lpoptions would alter this behavior - and no efforts on my part
> disproved that. It's obvious that this was a hard coded problem upstream
> and apparently that have put out a fix which hopefully is adopted soon
> on Fedora 7.
> 
> I am rather surprised by the lack of discussion on this here...which
> suggests some or many of the following:
> - few people using US sized paper are using Evolution
> - few people using GNOME on Fedora 7 (KDE no longer defaults to
>   using Evolution)
> - few people print from Evolution
> - few people using Fedora 7
Well I noticed this a while ago. I like you tried to find an option in
evolution to change the A4 printing. I did not find it. As soon as I
made the lpoptions suggestion I realized that htis was not the answer
since lpoptions -l said the Pagesize was Letter.

Unfortunately I assumed that it was my stupidity nor a evolution
problem. I was obviously wrong.



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