On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 at 01:03:52AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Argh. We should fork/cite this bug to a new bug against one of the > > oo.org packages "wish for oo.org to honour papersize". Do you know > > which package this should be reported against? The source package > > "openoffice.org" apparently generates 150(!) binary packages.
My guess is openoffice.org-core. I see this behavior in Writer, Calc and Draw (I haven’t tested the others), so I’d go for the common factor. I’m going to file a bug tomorrrow if nobody shouts here. > Michael and Trent - > > I apologize for not participating in this discussion a bit more. But, > I'm away visiting friends and relations for the weekend (and we're in > the middle of making blackberry jam as I write). Besides that, you > two are doing a super job of analyzing the problem. I'll get on it > when I return home today. > > One question -- I work on a Linux machine. But, the people we're > visiting have MS Windows (XP) and Mac X machines. Neither of them > have paperconf, as far as I can tell. Can we use the PAPERSIZE > environment variable as a fall-back? Are the conventions/rules for > using paperconf and PAPERSIZE written up somewhere? I'll have to > search and study. paperconf (package libpaper-utils) comes from Debian (though other GNU/Linux distributions also use it), so you can’t expect it to be present on Windows or Mac OS. I don’t know how these OSs handle default paper sizes, but relying on $PAPERSIZE is most probably useless (this variable won’t be set anywhere). You can either live with Letter as a fallback, if you use the patch I supplied, or find out how other systems cope with this stuff. But this is clearly beyond the scope of this Debian bug. Feel free to contact me privately if you need help. Cheers, -- Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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