kpdf insists it must print on A4 paper

[afabco]

kpdf keeps insisting that it must print on A4 size paper. cups is set to letter, as is the kpdf-> file -> print -> properties.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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[Joseph_sys]

[corey_s]

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I've got the same issue - it's downright vexing!

Only occurs via kpdf; I can print just fine w/ other kde apps.

No matter what I do, kpdf somehow manages to insist on requesting A4 paper to the printer; we don't have A4 in our printer, so the job never completes.

I've tried re-emerging quite a few different packages, in hopes of bumbling my way into a "fix" - but to no avail.

I can't figure out whether it's something in kpdf itself, or whether it's some obscure ( or not so obscure ) library or utility that kpdf uses.

I'm running a very current and stable ( no ACCEPT_KEYWORDS ) gentoo system, w/ kde-3.5.

Any pointers or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Anyone else other than us three experiencing this same issue?

[Joseph_sys]

Try to change setting in these two files.
To adjust the margine play with settings:
horigin 1 true in
vorigin 1 true in

[corey_s]

Thanks man - that might have at least gotten me pointed in the right direction.

My pdftex.cfg looks ok - it already had the [h,v]origin settings as you recommended.

However, my dvipdfm config had 'p' set to 'a4'. I went ahead and changed it to 'letter' as per your suggestion - but unfortunately that did not appear to work; there was no change of behavior when I tried printing a pdf from kpdf agin.

hmmm... wondering if there's something else I'm missing.

How about this:

again, in the dvipdfm config:

[toralf]

[corey_s]

[Al_Kane]

Just wondering... Have you solved this yet? Did you solve this by installing KDE 3.5.0?

I'm now having a similar problem. KPDF always tries to print lettersize, but I need A4.

I was running KDE 3.5 before the problem, which showed up after upgrading some packages (including cups-1.1.23-r7).

[corey_s]

No - I'm afraid I never did get it solved... to my utmost lament. I really wanted to figure it out.

I no longer have access to that pc... so I may never know...

Good luck!

[Al_Kane]

I solved my problem... which is definitely a KDE bug related to internationalization.

To re-iterate: I wanted to print A4, but KPDF always spit out lettersize.

I had the U.S. set as the country in Control -> Regional&Accessibility -> Country/Region&Language.

This sets letter as the default papersize, which apparently overrides the printer settings in KPDF.

I solved my problem by changing the country to "Default" so that the default papersize is now A4.

If you have the "Default" country set, you might want to try setting it to the U.S.

Good luck.

[X31]

So I found somewhat of a fix to the original problem of wanting to print letter size in KPDF but getting A4.

In KPDF, I went to File > Print
Then I selected System Options and chose the "Commands" setting.
Under there, I chose the "PDF Writer (needs Ghostscript)" option, and then clicked the wrench icon to edit the settings.
In the window that came up, I clicked the "Edit Command" button and in the command textbox, I changed the '-sPAPERSIZE' command line option to

-sPAPERSIZE=letter

Then I clicked OK to all the dialog boxes. After that, I could print from KPDF just fine without my printer giving me annoying messages for me to load A4 paper.

The internationalization settings suggested by Al_Kane did not work for me, perhaps because I wanted to use letter instead of A4. However, the above procedure worked.
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[beatryder]

I had the same problem

I fixed it by editing /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi and adding the line

*paper: letter

and restarting cups and any app that I wanted to print from.
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