Comment 110 for bug 10910

Hi

This does appear to fix the problem on my system. The default printer settings were already set correctly on my computer and the fault was still present so the problem may be localised to the print_paper settings.

Regards Richard

bigge wrote:
> If you have problem to get A4 as default paper size instead of US Letter:
> 1) Close firefox!
> 2) Edit the pref file in your profile (my profile is named tnju3mjg.default)
> Eg.
> gedit /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/tnju3mjg.default/prefs.js
>
> Search for user_pref("print.print_paper_
> Change "na_letter" to "iso_a4" and the height and width as this:
>
> user_pref("print.print_paper_height", "297,00");
> user_pref("print.print_paper_name", "iso_a4");
> user_pref("print.print_paper_size", 3);
> user_pref("print.print_paper_size_type", 1);
> user_pref("print.print_paper_size_unit", 1);
> user_pref("print.print_paper_width", "210,00");
>
> further down, for your default printer (my printer is Arbetsrum101):
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_height", "297,00");
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_name", "iso_a4");
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_type", 1);
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_unit", 1);
> user_pref("print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_width", "210,00");
>
> I did the same for all my printers
>
> 3) Save the file
> This solved my problem.
>
> --
> Default page size for printing is letter
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910
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