[rescue] sparcprinter follies contd.

[john]

Hi John-Paul,
I too suspect something like this. At your suggestion I looked at /etc/papersize. It is set to letter.
I need to try every possible combination to see if there is an a4 default somewhere in the systme that I'm not catching.
I have been looking at the headers in the spool files which I assume are frontends concocted by Cups, or by thee editor.  they seem all the same wther the file prints properly or not.

very vexing.

Thanks for your thoughts,

john ferguson

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Subject: Re: [rescue] SPARCprinter follies continued.
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Check paper size settings.  I've seen similar problems when printing to
US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper with software that was configured for the
slightly narrower but taller A4 size.

I suspect that LibreOffice is correctly configured to match the actual
paper size of your printer and overriding the system-wide default, while
GEdit is simply using the default paper size which might be incorrectly
set.  Since you're using Ubuntu, check the /etc/papersize file and make
sure it matches what you're using.  I've seen Debian (and derivatives
such as Ubuntu) default to European "A4" when I actually use "letter".