Fedora-17 Irritations

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:27:36 +0100
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

> 2.I installed an HP printer via the Printers dialogue and I cannot find 
> any way to set paper sizes to A4.

The weird thing is in the US, I constantly run into printers all
defaulting to A4 when I want US-Letter. I think there must be a
test backward somewhere in the paper handling code :-).

Anyway, I did finally decrypt the paper size default secret:

yum install libpaper
echo Letter > /etc/papersize

That gets libreoffice (at least) to default to Letter when
creating a new document. Presumably you could swap in A4
instead of Letter.