[Tfug] Printing problem

[christopher floess]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Daniel Duerr <dduerr at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Am having some problems with my system defaulting to A4 paper even when
> explicitly told not to.  Some quick googling turned up a couple suggestions
> for fixing this: system settings, program settings, and using lp or lpr
> specifying the media size.  I've tried all of these and that hasn't fixed
> the problem.  The settings have changed--and remain changed, but when a job
> gets sent to the printer things revert to A4.

Just thought I'd let you know that I'm running into the same thing.
It's weird, there isn't any consistency to it either. I printed two
different years of a calendar in pdf format, and one did Letter while
the other did A4, even though in the pdf properties dialogs they both
said Letter.

I'm using cups and it is set to Letter as well. I always thought that
opensuse, which I use, is based out of europe, and assumed it was
because of some deep down system thing that it behaved like this.
Crazy europeans. I might be wrong though.

Anyway, this is mostly a solidarity reply. I don't have that much
printing to do, so it hasn't affected me that much, nor have I really
bothered research it. Later ~ Chris