Bruce Korb: 1. You cannot use printer as the only source for the paper size. For example, even if I didn't have any installed printers, I'd expect following command to work: $ man -t groff paperconf | ps2pdf - - > paperconf.pdf Which paper size should the resulting PDF file have? Currently the output PDF file paper size depends only on /etc/papersize. If you don't have root access, you cannot currently change the result.
2. LC_PAPER should contain full locale instead of just paper name because LC_PAPER can/could also specify localizations for paper names (e.g. "letter" is "kirje" in Finnish and I'd expect this paper name specified by LC_PAPER locale). 3. POSIX locales include stuff like LC_COLLATE (sorting order) and (only in draft) LC_PAPER for paper size exactly for the reason that you may want to specify these differently. The LC_ALL is only a shortcut to override all specific settings. Could you specify which program the command "./paper" refers to in your result display? I guess that's not a standard program because you referred to it with a relative path. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393818 Title: libpaper should honor the LC_PAPER instead of /etc/papersize -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs