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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:52:21 -0700, Joshua Kwan <joshk@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 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
US Letter is the most hateful format ever invented. If everything would work
out of the box, I would not have reason to complain, but the number of times
I walked to the printer (of course full of the only used format in Europe:
A4), just so see that awful message on the display that the paper size
mismatches, just because every fucking printerdriver upograde *resets* to
that never-used format of Letter, or any not-named software upgrade defaults
to Letter instead of A4, is hopeless. Either make A4 the default worldwide,
or match it to the timezone used or so, but please NEVER make that stupid
Letter format the default.
> Linux. I acquired some A4 paper gratis, and figured it should be a
> matter of tweaking Page Setup-type settings to get that working.
Been there, done that, but vise versa
> 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
Bucketsful of it!
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