There is one possible reason that this may not be available in 111a is that we only delivered evince 2.22 instead of 2,24 for GNOME 2.24. We can't deliver evince 2.24 due to dependency of libgs (lack of). Hopefully, that delivery of the libgs is resolved soon by the RPE group in India.
-Ghee James Carlson wrote: > I can't seem to get evince to use US Letter size paper by default on > OpenSolaris build 111a. > > I've been all over the web looking for answers to this, and it seems > like it's a common problem, and something the evince developers have > claimed is long since fixed. It just doesn't seem to be fixed. > > I've tried: > > - Setting the paper type in evince itself. It forgets it the next > time it's started. > > - Changing gconf settings. These seem to do nothing: > > % gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome-print/paper/paper_size > Letter > % gconftool-2 -g /apps/gthumb/dialogs/print/paper_size > Letter > > - Setting LANG, LC_ALL, and LC_PAPER environment variables to "C" > and "en_US" and "en_US.UTF-8 at letter". > > - Running strings on the /usr/bin/evince and > /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so binaries to search for likely-looking > suspects. > > - Grepping through /etc and ~/.gnome* and ~/.gtk* looking for > possible settings. > > Nothing seems to help. Evince seems to be convinced that the paper > size here is A4, regardless of the evidence to the contrary. > > Any hints? Why is this so darned difficult compared with other > applications? By comparison, configuring 'enscript' to print properly > is a snap. > >
