Setting default page size for printing

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/2 Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>:
> On Monday 02 June 2008 10:36:10 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Although in Kcontrol I have the default page size set as A4, any time
>> I print (even from KDE apps) I have to change the Properties from
>> "letter" to A4. Why? How do I fix that? Thanks in advance.
>
> On my setup this is changed and saved in the Print box that comes up whenever
> you print something.  Over to the right there is a little box which
> says "properties" where when opened allows you to change things about the
> printer defaults, If you change something and then hit the save button at the
> bottom, it will be your default the next time up.  If you just change it, it
> will use those settings this time but the next time up it will revert to what
> it was.  Useful for me because I occasionally print Photos which are both
> higher resolution and on different paper.  It reverts to my normal settings
> when I'm done. That has always worked for me.  I did not know there was even
> a place to do this in Kcontrol.
>

Thanks, using the Save feature did, in fact, save those settings. How
painfully obvious.

Dotan Cohen

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