Re: printer page source for evince

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:06:36 -0500
"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > print/evince always comes up expecting to print on A4 paper.  Since
> > I live in a part of the planet that (alas) has not adopted the
> > metric system, I'd like to be able to change the default to letter
> > paper.  Is there any way to do that?  I don't run gnome, so a pure
> > gnomish solution isn't help much, though I can always tweak a
> > config file as needed.  (Googling has shown other queries about the
> > same problem, but no clear solutions, at least not that I could
> > find.)
> 
> Set PAPERSIZE as described in pkgsrc/mk/defaults/mk.conf and rebuild 
> your poppler packages.
> 
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I tried that.  It hasn't helped.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb