On Saturday April 29 2006 07:32, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Sat, 29 Apr 2006, by smaug42@gmail.com:
The default installation of SuSE printers uses A4 paper, which will cause your printer to hang up. It happened to me and it took a while to figure out what was going on. CUPS also has to be told (separately, I think) what the paper size is. For Americans, it should be letter size. The setting is in the filter parameters of the printer.
Well..... A4 is the international ISO stadard for paper size. Now you know the frustration for 5 billion other people on earth who try to use pretty much any software/OS that defaults to US Letter..
Not to mention all the engineers in the 21th century who have to have to revert to 18th century measurement "standards" when they try to speak with their US collegues.
Theo
Well, engineers tend to think and work in measurements which are multiples of 10^3 or 10^-3. What the hell are centimeters and deciliters and those things good for? Give me thousandths of an inch or kilowatts, or milliwatts or GHz and I'll be happy! --doug