evince doesn't remember "print setup" options

[Gaëtan de Menten]

Binary package hint: evince

Every time I print a document, I need to change the paper size in the "page setup" dialog. I use A4 paper, but by default it use "US letter" paper. Ideally, I shouldn't even have to set this manually, and that setting should be guessed from the fact I told during the OS installation that I live in Belgium/Europe.

But I could live with a bad default value. What is really annoying is that I have to change it every time I print: the paper size is not remembered across documents, even though the "format for: any printer" suggests it should.

PS: The system might be confused by the fact that I use Ubuntu in English, even though I live in Belgium.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 9 12:51:40 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evince file:///home/ged/.evolution/cache/tmp/evolution-tmp-Dg26ze/20080409123350139.pdf
ProcCwd: /home/ged
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/ged/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux plaf 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

You can just edit /etc/papersize so that it reads "a4".

[Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen)]

Thanks for the comment. It's a nice workaround (though it doesn't work for now but I guess it's just a matter of restarting my session). So, it'll suits my needs for now (until I install ubuntu on another box and forget about that papersize file). I still think a more user-friendly way is needed though.