Hi Peter & All, <div>On 02/02/2008, Peter Garrett <<a href="mailto:peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au">peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:02:14 +1100 pew_from_hobart <<a href="mailto:pewtas@gmail.com">pewtas@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I was using OpenOffice.org 2.3's Writer program and when I select printer > properties the only paper size selectable is "Letter". As I said, I need to > use the metric size of "A4". Check what appears in /etc/papersize . For example here: $ cat /etc/papersize a4</blockquote><div> I did the command you suggested above  ( $ cat /etc/papersize ) and the reply was: a4 </div> Does that mean that I don't need to do any further commands??? I just checked OpenOffice 2.3 Writer program and when I select Printer properties I only get to option of "Letter" paper size and no others to choose from! <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If your output from "cat /etc/papersize" in a terminal doesn't look like that, edit it so that it does :) For example, by running gksudo gedit /etc/papersize Or the quick way: echo "a4" | sudo tee /etc/papersize That last command will put the right content in the file, and print "a4" in your terminal at the same time for confirmation ... See " tee --help " ( and/or "man tee" of course ) Peter -- "INX Is Not X" Live CD based on Ubuntu 7.04 : <a href="http://inx.maincontent.net">http://inx.maincontent.net</a> Screenshots slideshow: <a href="http://inx.maincontent.net/album/1.png.html">http://inx.maincontent.net/album/1.png.html</a> -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div> Yours Sincerely and Confused, PEW   ;-))) from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or)  <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)