Setting default paper size in Gnome FC5

[Gavin Simpson]

On 5/8/06, Marc Schwartz (via MN) <mschwartz at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:39 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote:
>
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > Got into work and played a little, and I think I'm getting closer to
> > the problem now. Running evince from the command line for example
> > yields the following errors when opening the print dialog:
> >
> > Model not found, discarding config
> > GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer
> > HPColourLaserJ could not be loaded.
> > GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer
> > HPLaserJ could not be loaded.
>
> Gavin,
>
> One quick thought here.
>
> How were the above PPD files installed? From the default CUPS
> installation or via the "import PPD file" action menu item that is in
> printconf-gui?
>
> It might be worthwhile considering the possibility that these files are
> corrupted and/or perhaps have improper access permissions.
>
> Deleting and re-installing these might help here. It is the PPD
> (Postscript Printer Driver) files that provide configuration setting
> information to CUPS for Postscript printers.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> > And the dialogue chooses US LETTER. Now, if I close the print dialog
> > and then open it again, I don't get a second set of warnings about not
> > being able to open the ppd files for my printers, and now,
> > micraulously the default paper is A4. So I assume something is going
> > wrong in finding the defaults at first, but which works the second
> > time round. This happens with and without /etc/cups/lpoptions and
> > .lpoptions.
> >
> > A similar thing happens with Evolution, except it never gets the paper
> > correct on second opening of the print dialog - same messages from
> > GnomePrintCupsPlugin though.
> >
> > So I guess this is a bug and will complete a bug report for it in FC5 Bugzilla.
>
> If it is not too late, check the above before filing a bug report, just
> in case it is a local issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. The ppd files came from CUPS. They were
generated (I assume) when I added the printers uing printconf-gui. I
didn't import them from anywhere else. This is all on a vanilla FC5
install with a few apps added from standard yum repositories and all
relevant updates added via yum.

I've filed a bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191034

Will see if anything comes from it. Thanks for all your help.

All the best,

G