Fedora-17 Irritations
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Apr 21 20:05:35 UTC 2012
On 04/21/2012 11:52 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Exactly the problem! I'm not French and I want English measurements to be the
> default for United Kingdom locale settings.
I'll give that some thought after I wake up..... 4AM you see....
>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find any way to
>>>>> set paper sizes to A4.
>>>>
>>>> This can easily be set in CUPS. Using a browser go to http://localhost:631/ and
>>>> choose the "Administration" tab. Should be obvious from there.
>>>
>>> Again no problem. The physical printer is set to A4 and test pages print as A4 with
>>> KDE, but with GNOME 3.4 under Fedora-17 the output is American Letter size. Whence
>>> cometh it?
>>>
>>
>> You mean the output of test pages? Or? After I change the default paper size to A4
>> (standard here in Asia) the test page in GNOME prints A4. So, I don't see any issue.
>
> I'm not sure to what you refer in "changing the default paper size". I can't find a
> location in which to set that parameter. It certainly isn't in "Printers" from the
> "Applications" menu.
Did you go to the CUPS interface? http://localhost:631/ ???
Administration--->Manage Printers---->(Choose the Printer Queue)--->Select dropdown
menu "Maintenance/Set Default Options"
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