On 02.09.2010 05:49, W3BNR wrote: --- Original Message ---
> After much thought Jay Garcia wrote: >> On 01.09.2010 20:20, W3BNR wrote: >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >>> After much thought Jay Garcia wrote: >>>> On 01.09.2010 15:14, W3BNR wrote: >>>> >>>> --- Original Message --- >>>> >>>>> After much thought Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>>>>> Jay Garcia wrote: >>>>>>> On 31.08.2010 20:47, W3BNR wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --- Original Message --- >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> After much thought Jay Garcia wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 31.08.2010 19:12, W3BNR wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> --- Original Message --- >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Somehow my FILE/PAGE SETUP/MARGINS& HEADER/FOOTER margin >>>>>>>>>> measurements >>>>>>>>>> got set to millimeters. How do I set them back to inches? "Help" >>>>>>>>>> file >>>>>>>>>> is of no help. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Check your printer setup to see if you're set to metric. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Nope, printer/printers are all set in inches. Checking about:config >>>>>>>> show that margins are set to 0.5 and paper size 8.5 and 11 which I >>>>>>>> assume must be inches. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Interesting, I can't force it to mm .. no idea at the moment. >>>>>> >>>>>> Assuming a Windows system, have you tried Control Panel | Regional >>>>>> and >>>>>> Language Options | Regional Options | Customize | Measurement >>>>>> system | >>>>>> "U.S." instead of "Metric"? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yep, everything fine there. All set to English, US. >>>>> >>>> >>>> One more suggestion ... >>>> >>>> Locate your profile and the file "localstore.rdf". Make a copy of the >>>> file and then delete the original. Start SM and see if that fixed >>>> it. If >>>> not then delete the newly created one and rename your backup copy back >>>> to the original localstore.rdf >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Done and still shows it as 12.7 millimeters instead of 0.5 inches. >>> Back to the original rdf file. >>> >> >> Create a new profile and if it still shows in mm's then it's something >> inherent in that particular release. >> >> > Continued with my investigation. > Saw that the settings for print.print._unwriteable_margin_ x were all > set to '-1' in both my profile and the virgin test profile. > > All of my printers (HP5400, Fine Print, PDF Creator, and PaperPort) had > those settings at '0'. > > Not knowing exactly what that meant,I changed the Fine Print printer > settings to '-1' and my millimeters went away and inches returned. > (Yes, I know - if you don't know what a setting is for DON'T TOUCH IT! > But sometimes you just got to take the bull by the horns.....) > > After a restart of SeaMonkey, the '-1' setting that I had placed in the > unwriteable_margin settings of Fine Print printer had returned to '0' > since that's what the prefs.js file has in it, but the "PAGE SETUP' > settings remained in inches. > > Sort of like the last time - made a change - millimeters went back to > inches and the change I made disappeared. > > Question is now ... how did it get changed in the first place?? -- *Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion* www.ufaq.org Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Flock - Thunderbird _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
