evolution paper size

[RavenOak]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:46 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:45 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:34 -0700, Julius Smith wrote:
> > > In FC6, I can go to 
> > > System / Administration / Printing
> > > select (in the Printer configuration window that came up)
> > > Local Printers / printer
> > > select the "Printer Options" tab, and set the Page Size to Letter
> > > there. 
> > > 
> > > Does this not work in FC7?
> > > 
> > > Julius
> > > 
> > > On 7/31/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> > >         Have an issue with newly installed F7 and evolution with a
> > >         cups print
> > >         server for the network. 
> > >         
> > >         Nowhere in evolution can you choose page size when you print -
> > >         as far as
> > >         I can tell.
> > >         
> > >         It appears the default page size is A4 and that setting is
> > >         somewhere in
> > >         the bowels of GNOME and I cannot figure out how to switch it
> > >         to US 
> > >         Letter.
> > >         
> > >         Anyone want to toss me a bone...it would seem to be a simple
> > >         thing but I
> > >         have 30 minutes chasing my tail around and I can't figure out
> > >         how to get
> > >         at something like this - even with the most crude gconftool-2 
> > >         
> > >         TIA
> > ----
> > No - read the bugzilla...it can't be fixed without updating both
> > evolution and gtkprint
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240001
> ----
> FYI
> 
> For all who use Fedora 7 and Evolution, take note of the last entry in
> bugzilla...printing issues discussed will not be fixed until Fedora 8 
> 
> -- 
> Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>


If one needs to print emails from Evolution, try printing to PDF (I used
cups-pdf-2.4.6-1.fc7) then print the PDF as normal.  Printing the PDF
seems to override that it is in A4 size.

--Tim