The evil print.postscript.paper_size letter default comes from bug 125078 and I don't see any means provided for changing the default.
initPrintSettingsFromPrinter was meant to get setting from the printer and the xprint backend implementation appropriately asked the system for available paper sizes. It seems print.postscript.paper_size pref was just a space filler for lack of a postscript implementation. savePrintSettingsToPrefs and printer-specific prefs in initPrintSettingsFromPrefs weren't added until bug 128142 and they now seem the appropriate place for managing preferences. So I agree that it is better to leave the paper settings at their default than to pull in this arbitrary default. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
