Re: How do I set the default page size

[Rick DeNatale <rick denhaven2 homeip net>]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 18:56 -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> Some weeks/months ago an evolution install seems to have changed the
> default page size from US Letter to A4 in the gnome print dialog.
> 
> Unless I manually change the page size each time I print, printing fails
> silently.  My travails are documented in the Evolution bugzilla
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55590
> 
> This is the same whether I'm running under Gnome or KDE.
> 
> How does one change the default page size for gnome printing?  I've
> tried googling and even trying to read some source without success.
> 
> For a bonus question, is it possible to change the default print
> command, I'd rather use kprinter than lpr in order to be able to
> use/control some of the advanced capabilities of my printer.

It's been a while since I posted the questions above.  A recent posting
to the Evolution list made me realize that the gnome print dialog is
only offering me "Default Postscript" and "Create a PDF file" as
printers.  

I researching the overall questions, it seems that gnome print should be
getting the defaults from CUPS. My CUPS printers are all configured with
US Letter as the default, however, I can't find a CUPS definition for
the "Default Postscript" or the "Create PDF File" printers.

So now the questions I have now are:

1) Should the gnome print dialog be offering my real CUPS printers?
2) If the answer to #1 is yes, then what might be possibly be preventing
this in my case.
3) If the answer to #1 is no, then how so I set the defaults for the two
"printers" I get to choose?