Hello, On Sep 30 15:52 David C. Rankin wrote (shortened):
The question is why these dialogs are not respecting /etc/papersize
Hopefully not too many programs do respect it! # rpm -qf /etc/papersize groff-1.18.1.1-... See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=88286#c14 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes> Can we rely on /etc/papersize? No, please don't rely on /etc/papersize. This is a debian extension to groff, which "accidentally" is in our groff package as well because we use the debian groff patch to make groff work for Japanese. As soon as the upstream groff has decent support for UTF-8 and Japanese, this patch will not be needed anymore and /etc/papersize may disappear as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I filed now https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643083 Many thanks to point out this old issue with /etc/papersize! The whole /etc/papersize idea cannot work really well because in the end only the printable area for a particular printer does matter, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Print_Settings_with_CUPS ------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no such thing as "THE" default paper size. ... Preferably application programs should query CUPS (more precisely a cupsd which is accessible on localhost or via network) to get the PPD file for a specific print queue and use the "DefaultPageSize" value as default paper size when the application is creating a document which is meant to be printed. Furthermore the application should use the matching "ImageableArea" values in the PPD to make sure that the content of the document does not exceed the actual printable area of the particular printer. Strictly speaking for an application which produces a document which is meant to be printed the page size is irrelevant. Actually only the printable area does matter when it comes to printing a document on a particular printer. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org