CUPS localhost:631 versus GNOME page size

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sat Oct 9 00:06:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:53:58PM -0400, Chris wrote:

> Setting the page size in the GNOME printer settings seems to do nothing at 
> all.  It never actually changes the page size and printing stuff comes out 
> all wrong.  There appears to be two settings, one under "Paper" and 
> another under "Advanced".  Neither one seems to have any effect.  And in 
> fact, setting the page size in the application (like Firefox) also seems 
> to have no effect.
> 
> If I go into the CUPS web admin (after re-enabling the admin functions) I 
> can see that the page size has not been changed.  Changing the page size 
> from the web-based admin fixes the problem (if I only care to use one page 
> size) but I still can't seem to change it on the fly while printing from 
> an application.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?  Is this a configuration problem, Ubuntu problem, 
> something with GNOME, or ... ?

Seems like a bug; please file it in Bugzilla.

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 - mdz




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