Force setting standard paper A4

[Colin Law]

On 27 April 2012 12:30, oxy <oxyopes at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> iirc that gets set based on the timezone that was selected at install
>> time or so ...
>> try: sudo dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1
>
> ... this solved for many apps (office ...) but not for firefox.
> Guess, i ll have to live with that ...

If you go to print from FF and set the paper size in the print
settings to A4 then presumably it is ok for that print.  Does it then
stay at A4 possibly for further prints?

Colin

>
> Thx oli...
>
>
> On 4/27/12, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:56:34 +0200
>> oxy <oxyopes at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> every day I send a print job to the big printer, run 20m over the
>>> corredor to read: "Insert us-letter". At ubuntu sys-settings it is
>>> A4, on /etc/cups there is nothing about us-letter.
>>>
>>> Why this print menu insists on us-letter as default?
>> iirc that gets set based on the timezone that was selected at install
>> time or so ...
>>
>> try:
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1
>>
>>
>> ciao
>>       oli
>>
>
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