the Criminally Ungood Printing System

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From: Joshua Kwan
Subject: the Criminally Ungood Printing System
Date: 18:52 on 03 Jul 2006
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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
Linux. I acquired some A4 paper gratis, and figured it should be a
matter of tweaking Page Setup-type settings to get that working.

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

--=20
Joshua Kwan


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