[rescue] sparcprinter follies contd.

[Steve Rikli]

Probably a longshot, but also check your shell environment(s) for
paper size settings like that, e.g. LC_PAPER, PAPERSIZE, etc.  The
papersize(5) man page lists some behavior and environment stuff.


On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 01:45:14PM -0400, john wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> From: John-Paul Stewart<jpstewart at sympatico.ca>
> 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".