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at240
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 Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: setting default page size in acroread |
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Acrobat Reader insists on having US Letter as the default page size when I print documents. It is a real pain changing it to A4 each time. How do I make it A4 by default? I must have missed something really obvious. 
Just to anticipate one line of response: CUPS is configured correctly to use A4 by default---this is a problem with acroread itself, I think.
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SoylentGreen
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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are you sure you emerged acroread with the "nls" USEflag?
in my case, it fetches the german version here, and defaults to A4 
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app-text/acroread-7.0.5-r2 USE="cups nls nsplugin -ldap"
+ + nls : Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
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at240
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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yes, nls was/is enabled.
The thought had occurred to me that it might be some kind of locales issue. I've not tweaked the default installation at all in this respect---could this be the source of the problem? |
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SoylentGreen
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| at240 wrote: | yes, nls was/is enabled.
The thought had occurred to me that it might be some kind of locales issue. I've not tweaked the default installation at all in this respect---could this be the source of the problem? |
fer sure 
my /etc/make.conf includes:
LINGUAS="de"
i guess yours should be LINGUAS="uk"
i guess you never worried about this, because you are a native english speaker anyway. but IMHO the linguas parametre does much more apart from umlauts. it also takes care about 24hour format, papersizes, currency, etc..
this will be helpfull for plenty other settings as well, not just acroread.
duh! i just realize LINGUAS is not in make.conf.example. i think it should
simply add
that to your make.conf, and see what gives. i guess you have to re-compile a few packages, prolly those ones using the "nls" USEflags.  |
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at240
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies, by the way. 
Setting LINGUAS didn't do anything (is uk a valid value? I thought it was languages not locations)---didn't trigger anything to be recompiled, and emerging the acroread binary again didn't change anything. I've also set LC_ALL and LANG to en_GB values---still no joy.
I've noticed too that the printer properties window doesn't retain any of its information, not just the page size but also DPI and so on.
Any more ideas? |
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SoylentGreen
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| at240 wrote: |
Setting LINGUAS didn't do anything (is uk a valid value? |
well, i am not sure about this, because i do not live there. it should be in the documentations somewhere, or - i bet - someone else from the UK will clarify.
but - it must be an issue, because otherwise it wouldnt download the german acroread on my system?
perhaps, for the time beeing, you check the adobe site. is there a special UK version, likewise to the german one? |
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at240
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Still no joy with this.
Anyone got any ideas? |
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at240
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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final bump before I give up 
even with the en_GB locale set and working, I'm seeing no change... |
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think4urs11
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what output gives
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at240
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. locale produces | Code: | LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_PAPER="en_GB"
LC_NAME="en_GB"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
LC_ALL=en_GB
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SoylentGreen
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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a quick question inbetween comes to mind..
if you are using KDE, you might try koffice. this works perfect for me.
or KPDF.. |
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at240
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Alas, this is a KDE- and GNOME-free machine. |
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doctor5
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
Did you ever solve this problem? I fought with it for a long time, and ended up setting linguas="sv", re-emerging acroread, but it didn't help. I could see that it downloaded the swedish acrobat reader, but it wasn't till I deleted the .adobe directory that it was OK. I really wanted the menus in english, but I'd rather have the swedish menus than have to reset the page size each time...
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at240
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Hello, thanks for the reply.
No, I didn't solve it. I just couldn't find any way of doing it. But just after this, I tried out KDE, liked it, and so switched to kpdf, which is OK but not quite as smooth as acroread.
Annoying. |
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njuk-njuk
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i was struggling with this but in an opposite fashion: i wanted US Letter by default but acroread was using A4. i tried mucking with locale settings, mainly focusing on LC_ALL and LANG set to "en_US" but acroread still defaulted to A4. prior to the change, LC_ALL etc were set to "POSIX". seeing the post by doctor5 clued me into something; namely, the acroread resource files.
once i removed $HOME/.adobe everything fell into place and US Letter was now the default, even with LC_ALL="POSIX". note: there may be a single option that can be hand-tweaked in one of the adobe resources files, i just didn't have the patience to dig around so i opted to clean house completely.
i have the following set in my /etc/make.conf---english is my native language but i also need access to japanese...
also, here are the USE flags for acroread (app-text/acroread-7.0.5-r2)---all others are unset...
| Code: | | +cups +linguas_ja +nls +nsplugin |
i am guessing that at initial startup acroread sets the default page size in one of its resource files. i've had problems in the past with acroread starting up in japanese (because of my settings above) and maybe it took this value from there initially. nonetheless, cleaning out the resource files and starting fresh solved it for me. |
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