libreoffice paper size magic.

[mike cloaked]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:35:49 -0500
> fred smith wrote:
>
>> Hmm.... that's odd. I didn't have to do either of those things.
>> Just looked and both the printer default and document default paper
>> are US Letter. I don't recall having to do anything particularly
>> weird to make it happen, though it's probably been a couple months
>> (and I'm not as young as I used to be...).
>
> Weird. It has been stuck on A4 for me since back when it was
> openoffice (though a few years ago you could go into
> "Printer Setup...", set the paper size, and it would stick,
> but that setting stopped sticking a long time ago).
>

One thought - what if you reset your locale setting?

Here if I make the locale UK then printers default to A4 - so I
presume that if you have a US locale then it would be set to
Letter.....

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mike c