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. -- ======================================================================= Some people have parts that are so private they themselves have no knowledge of them. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
