A4 paper -- how to change??

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Frank Jahnke wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:08 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>> The default paper size looks to be stored in
>> /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/libgnomeprint/2.12.1/globals.xml.  The Option Id
>> is PhysicalSize.  Changing the Default value to USLetter should achieve
>> what you want.
> 
> I had no idea that the set-up information would be located there.  In
> any event, I made the change, and it did not work for me, at least for
> printing a test file from Evolution (your reply to my email message).
> 
> Here's the relevant section from the file as I modified it:
> 
>  <Option Id="Media">
>       <Option Type="List" Id="PhysicalSize" Default="USLetter">
> 
> It seems to be the right syntax, as USLetter is used farther down the
> file.  Exiting and re-entering Gnome did not help.
> 
> I tried Evince from the command line, and received a slew of warning
> messages.  Perhaps these will help.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> pinot% evince
> 
> ** (evince:61550): WARNING **: Service registration failed.
> 
> ** (evince:61550): WARNING **: Unable to determine the address of the
> message bus
> Model not found, discarding config
> 
> (evince:61550): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: iconv does not support
> ppd character encoding: ISOLatin1, trying CSISOLatin1
> 
> ** (evince:61550): WARNING **: Could not find child for option
> "PhysicalSize" with id "Letter"
> 
> ** (evince:61550): WARNING **: rebuild_menu_cb, could not set value of
> PhysicalSize to Letter
> 
> (evince:61550): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
> 
> (evince:61550): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data:
> assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
> 
> ** (evince:61550): CRITICAL **: gpa_spinbutton_load: assertion
> `gpa_spinbutton_is_connected (s)' failed
> 
> (evince:61550): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
> 
> (evince:61550): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data:
> assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
> 
> ** (evince:61550): CRITICAL **: gpa_spinbutton_load: assertion
> `gpa_spinbutton_is_connected (s)' failed
> pinot%
> 
> Does that help?

Change it under printers/GENERIC.xml as well.

Joe


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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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