Comment 50 for bug 310575

ferro, note that the fix for Intrepid in -proposed is only to get Hardy's behavior of scaling down the A3 pages back, not for automatic tray change.

Automatic tray change we will get back in Jaunty. I have reported your problem to CUPS upstream:

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3063

Mike Sweet, author of CUPS, has solved it by imposing the page size to the document only if the page size is supplied on the command line. Otherwise the document's page size will be used.

I will also check the other filters and make them also behaving this way.

This means that then you should be able to print multiple-page size documents with automatic tray change with

lpr combined.pdf

and scale them to A4 with

lpr -o PageSize=A4 combined.pdf