[PLUG] Fwd: Printing problem on boss-linux

[Milind Oka]

Hi,

The A4 problem seems resolved. I found one hint from internet.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

After that I removed US and Put GB

But after restart evey thing was in bengali. Fortunately password and 
terminal was using english

I once again tried the command and removed all regional languages but 
kept en_gb and in_en only english.

Now after restart the language is English and the paper seems coming A4 
by default. Thanks sanjay for your clue

Now we have to remember to set GB instead of US during boss installation.

thanks

Milind
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Subject: 	Printing problem on boss-linux
Date: 	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:49:15 +0530
From: 	Milind Oka <oak445 at gmail.com>
To: 	plug-mail at plug.org.in, GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India 
<linuxers at mm.ilug-bom.org.in>



Hi,

In my efforts to push FOSS in schools and colleges, I am distributing 
free and open source softwares in schools and colleges. All projects are 
uploaded on source forge.

However I am facing some printing problem executing JAVA code on 
bosslinux. I usually print output directly on A4 paper and suppress 
print dialog. I wrote the program before I knew BOSS and was working 
nicely on windows. On BOSS, the program executes properly but the 
default output comes on letter size instead of A4. This trims some left, 
right, top and bottom content.

I tried various code snippets to pro grammatically set the paper A4 but 
it does not work. I am using cups-pdf and the pdf print is also having 
the same problem. I thought first that it was a problem specific to boss 
but a friend of mine sent me this.


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[Forwarded from Sanjay Patil]
Yes, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=88286#c12

The crucial information is the geographical location,
i.e. the second part of a locale name, for example:
en_GB is English for Great Britain => A4 paper
en_US is English for United States => Letter paper

I think that without an existing geographical location
(in particular for "C" or "POSIX") it is just not possible
to set another paper size than what is the default in the PPD.

Or the fallback should be at least "A4" (if avialable in the PPD)
because I think that A4 paper is more often used in the whole world
than Letter.
==============================

Has anybody come across this. Will you please run the following java 
code on any other linux version and let me know how it works or send me 
the pdf output ?  I have already set the default data so just run the 
Java file and press the [Print Attendance] button. You will get 23 page 
document. Only one page will do for testing. pdf output will be best.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsc-formcreator/

Thanks and regards

Milind




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