This sort of incident should be a thing of the past, I think. It's quite possible that someone, somewhere, has come up with a workaround that I would be satisfied with. It might even be in the codebase somewhere. It should be enabled by default, and it should work out of the box. Instead, I would have to spend 15 minutes googling for it (or ask a mailing list about it), and for software as pervasive and possibly useful as CUPS, that is unjustifiable and hateful.
The story is rather simple. So I usually use US letter paper with my printer, set up using CUPS on Linux. I acquired some A4 paper gratis, and figured it should be a matter of tweaking Page Setup-type settings to get that working. Right? Nah. That would be too easy. I also have to change the paper setting in CUPS' asinine web interface to match. WHY? SO FULL OF HATE -- Joshua Kwan
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