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Bug 114315

Summary: kpdf insists it must print on A4 paper
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Joseph <syscon780>
Component: [OLD] KDEAssignee: Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Joseph 2005-12-02 21:25:31 UTC
kpdf will not print to "letter" size paper; always prints to A4 paper size.
So it will not allow me to print invoices correctly from sql-ledger or any other
application.

cups-printer has the correct papers size set "Letter 8.5x11)

#Joseph

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.binarycompass.org"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo
bzip2 cdr cgi crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg
flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms libg++
libwww mad mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline
samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-05 05:50:09 UTC
Can you file at bugs.kde.org so the kpdf folks can get a proper fix for it?  
Seems like a grave bug.  
Comment 2 Joseph 2005-12-05 14:11:41 UTC
Problem solved.
After unmerging KDE and re-emerging KDE-split-ebuild; somehow Latex
configuration got effected and the program like Sql-ledger refused to print
directly to printer.  It wanted A4 size paper (I need letter size).  Googling
around and making changes to Tetex config.ps file wasn't showing any
improvement, until I restart Apache.
So, remember when making any changes to Tetex config file; restart Apache.
Don't ask me how Apache effect Tetex; it worked for me.

#Joseph