Ewing Caldwell wrote:
I have seen some questions on this list (much) earlier about how to set the
default paper size for OpenOffice, from US Letter to A4. I too had a problem
with this, as my country's paper standard is A4, too. While the proffered
solutions of setting the paper size in document templates is not strictly
wrong, it is tedious, as you have to do it in every template you use. It does
not address the issue of having Openoffice always default to the correct page
size. As I had not seen a response directly meeting this need, I went
looking.
There is a config file in Openoffice.org's installation directory called
psprint.conf. For my installation (yours will probably differ), it's in
/opt/openeoffice-2.2/ share/psprint
(If you don't know where it is in your installation, you could try the
following command in a terminal window:
find /opt /usr -name psprint.conf -print
which should print its whereabouts for you.)
It is a read-only file so check its ownership (ls -l psprint.conf - it should
be root-user), switch to that user and make it writable: su + root's
password followed by chmod u+w psprint.conf. or sudo chmod u+w psprint.conf.
Open the file with a text editor and look for the line:
; PPD_PageSize=A4
Remove the semi-colon (comment character) at the start of the line and save
the file. Change the permissions to make it read-only again (chmod u-w
psprint.conf). Your default page size is now (and will be until your next
upgrade :-), A4.
Hope this helps all those A4 users trapped with US Letter.
As far as I know, on Windows the page size and orientation are
properties of the *printer* which, by default, are honoured by "well
behaved" applications of which OpenOffice is one. However, they can be
altered within an application for an individual document or, via
templates or similar, for a set of documents. Is the same not true of
*nix? Of Macs?
I use the normal (US) Windows version of OpenOffice but I never had to
tell it that my printer uses A4 paper. I only need to say something if I
want to print in landscape or on envelopes or whatever. After printing a
non-standard document and then closing it, OpenOffice will revert to A4
portrait unless I say otherwise. Of course, the page size etc. that you
use when you print a document are saved with the document so OpenOffice
will "remember" non-standard documents.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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