Divorcing SuSE and A4

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:25:37 -0800
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:11:01AM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
> >There are several issues I've come across with SuSE, which I don't
> >quite understand.  Coming from COL, I never had to deal with these. 
> >The first one is what incantations do I need to bellow in order to
> >get anything to print on US Letter!?  I have so far found 3 different
> >places within KDE/YAST to set this and I STILL have my printer asking
> >me to insert A4 paper.  I've changed it in every place I know how:
> >Printer Config for KDE,
> 
> If you're using OpenOffice, there's a file, psprint.conf that contains
> the printer default.  On my SuSE 8.1 system it's:
> 	/opt/OpenOffice.org/share/psprint/psprint.conf
> 
> Change PPD_PageSize=A4 to Letter, and you should be OK.
> 

The slightly more standard approach is to use the /path/to/OO/spadmin
program which will allow you to set the default.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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