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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Default Paper Size for KOffice?
From:       "Joshua Johnson" <joshua.johnson () ftlsys ! com>
Date:       2001-10-26 14:14:03
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The two situations that I cannot seem to get to work are:

1).  Default size for documents that are coming in form a filter (i.e. 
MSWord)  When I open a document with a .doc it defaults to A4. This is the 
one I have to be the most careful about.  When I print them the first few 
lines are missing due to the page size difference.

	More Detail ==> I have associated .doc with KWord and from KMail 
	whenever I open a .doc I have to switch the paper size to letter before
	printing.  (Is this a WvWare setting I am missing?)

2).  When I start with an empty document it defaults to A4.


Starting a document fom a template works great, no problems there :-)

Any documents that I create, maintain the correct paper setting no problems 
there :-)

These are NOT big issues and I don't want to create a long thread about it I 
was just curious as to whether or not there was a way to make Letter the 
default format.  

I was thinking that there would be a locale setting, an *rc setting for each 
application, or that somehow the office apps would grab the default printer 
and look at the default paper size and use that.  I have not been able to 
find any of these.

Anyway let me express my sincere appreciation for all of the hard work that 
everyone is doing.  I hope that this only proves that I am using KDE/Koffice 
every day and have nothing better to complain about then this.  Great Work :-)

P.S. As a side note (thread) I saw that someone had complained about not 
having footnotes automatically generated (MACRO'd, scripted, whatever) in 
KWord. Is anyone taking on that issue?




Kindest Regards,



Joshua Johnson


On Friday 26 October 2001 01:56 am, Thomas Zander wrote:
> I have KDE 2.2.2(CVS) but I think it is also in your version;
> press save in the print dialog to save current settings. Including paper
> type, it works here.
>
> When you create a new document in KWord you should select the Letter
> template if you want to print to letter later on. So don't just select
> new..
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:36:57PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > The problem is that you have to select letter every time, you can't set
> > the paper size (default) to letter and have it stick.  The default should
> > be able to be set and stick forever...until or unless you change it.
> >
> > This problem used to exist with the kde print system too.  You used to
> > set your default paper size to letter now, expecting that it would stick
> > but the next time you print, say a website, you find that it has reverted
> > to A4 instead and totally dicked up the printout.
> >
> > I'd say that it should be tied to country, just as a nice means of
> > setting default behavior from install - subject to the user changing it. 
> > If I set my country to USA, A4 is just not there.  Letter is the primary
> > format in the USA so setting country to USA should also set the default
> > page size for printers, for kword, for kedit, etc, etc, to letter.
> >
> > It should never be the case that the page size keeps going back to A4
> > after closing your app so that it has to be changed again when the app is
> > reopened.
> >
> > On Thursday 25 October 2001 15:48, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:00:23PM -0500, Joshua Johnson wrote:
> > > > Just wondering if this is due to be fixed soon?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If it has been fixed how does one set the preference?
> > > >
> > > > My setup is:
> > > > SuSE 7.1 - KDE 2.2.1 - KOFFICE 1.1 - CUPS
> > > > (All of the above are outstanding BTW :-)
> > > >
> > > > I have tried setting the paper size per printer in Control Panel,
> > > > however KWord and Kspread do not seem to set the size accordingly. 
> > > > They still default to A4.
> > > >
> > > > Please excuse if the answer has been posted I was unable to find it
> > > > in list archives.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Warmest Regards,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Joshua
> > >
> > > Not quite sure what your problem is, if I open a KWord document of size
> > > US-Letter and press print, that is the size my print dialog shows.
> > > If I select a new page of A4, then that is the size shown in the print
> > > diag.
> > >
> > > Do you think this is incorrect behavior?
> > >
> > > I am using the CVS KOffice 1.1 version, together with kprint.

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