You might be having this problem due to your locale not using A4 but you personally are. en_US.UTF-8 is setup for letter by default. I am not certain whether the various apps use /etc/papersize or the locale information. But there is definitely a LC_PAPER to set the default papertype for a locale.
semola,
You might be having this problem due to your locale not using A4 but you personally are. en_US.UTF-8 is setup for letter by default. I am not certain whether the various apps use /etc/papersize or the locale information. But there is definitely a LC_PAPER to set the default papertype for a locale.
Chris
~$ locale "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" "en_US. UTF-8" ON="en_ US.UTF- 8"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_PAPER=
LC_NAME=
LC_ADDRESS=
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATI
LC_ALL=