[GNC] How do I persuade gnucash or webkit to use us-letter and not a4 as default paper size ?

[David Reiser]

> On Feb 1, 2025, at 16:53, dewaj <dewaj at garlic.com> wrote:
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> Follow-up:
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> gnucash 5.10 flatpak current .
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> Linux Devuan Daedalus ( debian 12 fork ) .
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> Selected printer : Print to PDF
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> Paper size is a4 and must be manually changed to us-letter .
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> Always print to PDF for proofing before printing to paper .
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> PDF proof does not require change of papersize at printing .
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> Defined system papersize : USLetter
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> Default system papersize changed to : USLetter
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> System papersize is disregarded by gnucash printing .
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> System papersize is disregarded also by mozilla firefox & forks .
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> is this certainly a webkit problem ?
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> —
> dj

Not webkit. Probably gtk. I stumbled across a message I posted to gnucash-user in 2007 (yep, seventeen+ years ago) about gtkprint’s default to a4 paper. There is more than one way to declare a paper size to various unix systems ( /etc/papersize and lpoptions being 2), and not all unix versions handle all methods. I use mostly macs, and back then adding

export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8

to my .profile file worked for me. 

It has been a long time since I knew much about the workings of the settings dungeons in unix. That setting is still in my profile, but I have no idea if it is really doing anything anymore. I print about 10 checks and 1 report per year. I don’t remember any problems, but who knows if I did some odd settings work to get the check format to print properly...

Dave
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