[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

[Richard de Rivaz]

Hi

This does appear to fix the problem on my system. The default printer
settings were already set correctly on my computer and the fault was
still present so the problem may be localised to the print_paper
settings.

Regards Richard


bigge  wrote:
>                 If you have problem to get A4 as default paper size instead of US Letter:
> 1) Close firefox!
> 2) Edit the pref file in your profile (my profile is named tnju3mjg.default)
> Eg.
> gedit /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/tnju3mjg.default/prefs.js
> 
> Search for user_pref("print.print_paper_ 
> Change "na_letter" to "iso_a4" and the height and width as this:
> 
> user_pref("print.print_paper_height", "297,00");
> user_pref("print.print_paper_name", "iso_a4");
> user_pref("print.print_paper_size", 3);
> user_pref("print.print_paper_size_type", 1);
> user_pref("print.print_paper_size_unit", 1);
> user_pref("print.print_paper_width", "210,00");
> 
> further down, for your default printer (my printer is Arbetsrum101):
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_height", "297,00");
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_name", "iso_a4");
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_type", 1);
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_unit", 1);
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_width", "210,00");
> 
> I did the same for all my printers
> 
> 3) Save the file
> This solved my problem.
> 
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> Default page size for printing is letter
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910
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Richard de Rivaz
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