Comment 8 for bug 150691

It is from the list. What I did is the following (my /etc/papersize contains simply "a4"):

In system-config-printer I click the "New printer" button, then in the list of detected printers I choose "Print into PDF file". In the next two steps I leave the pre-selections "Generic" and "PDF file generator" and in the last step the suggested name "PDF_file_generator". After that I have a new print queue named "PDF_file_generator" with "Letter" as default paper size.

Then I go into the web interface http://localhost:631/, choose "Administration", then "Add printer", as name I take "x", then I choose as device "PDF file generator" and stay with the default "Generic PDF file generator" as model/driver. The paper size default of my new print queue "x" is A4 now.

During installation of Ubuntu I had once to choose the language (I chose english) and once the time zone (I chose Lisbon/Portugal). The output of "locale", once for me and once for root you can see below.

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till@till-laptop:~/printing/foomatic/foomatic-filters-devel$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
till@till-laptop:~/printing/foomatic/foomatic-filters-devel$ sudo locale
[sudo] password for till:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
till@till-laptop:~/printing/foomatic/foomatic-filters-devel$
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