Printer question, none show up

[David Reiser]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:00 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ken Springer <snowshed at dishmail.net> wrote:
>> GnuCash loaded just fine, but I wanted to print some reports before entering
>> any data to see what they looked like.  When I open the Print Report menu,
>> there are no printers listed.  I have 2 USB and one network printer
>> installed.  Is this normal, which seemingly means I can't select a printer
>> to use, or did something go wrong during installation?
>> 
> 
> I use the X-Window version of GnuCash on MacOSX 10.5.8 and it prints
> fine.  It sees all my printers and the ones I've tried work ok.  The
> main problem is that printing reports ignores that page setup settings
> and always prints on (in my case) A4 paper, but I have a fix for that
> which I will checkin after I'm more satisfied it works ok.
> 
>              Mike
> 

As a stop-gap, if your environment contains 
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
Then gtkprint will assume Letter as the default paper instead of A4.

Dave
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David Reiser
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