Re: How do I set the default page size

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 08:18, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 08:02, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > I researching the overall questions, it seems that gnome print should be
> > getting the defaults from CUPS. My CUPS printers are all configured with
> > US Letter as the default, however, I can't find a CUPS definition for
> > the "Default Postscript" or the "Create PDF File" printers.
> 
> "Default Postscript" and "Create PDF File" are not created by cups but
> are gnome-print specific. They are defined in
> /usr/share/libgnomeprint/2.7.0/printers/*.xml or so
> 
> You can change the default paper size for those. Look in the appropriate
> configuration for 
>       <Key Id="Media">
>         <Key Id="PhysicalSize" Value="A4" />
>       </Key>
> 
> 
> > 
> > So now the questions I have now are:
> > 
> > 1) Should the gnome print dialog be offering my real CUPS printers?
> 
> The print dialog should show you all configured cups printers. If cups
> is not available on your machine a separate printer "lpr" should be
> shown.
> 
> > 2) If the answer to #1 is yes, then what might be possibly be preventing
> > this in my case.
> 
> gnomeprint is simply inquiring about existing printers from libcups. I
> have no idea why you would get an empty list.
> 
> > 3) If the answer to #1 is no, then how so I set the defaults for the two
> > "printers" I get to choose?
> 
> n/a
> 
> Andreas

You may be observing http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143628
Since I can't replicate the bug I have no way to look at it.

Andreas
-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow
Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps
and Shetland Sheep

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