Changing the default paper sizeWonderful!
To change the default paper size for all new documents, open Print Center, choose Preferences from the Print Center menu, and choose the paper size you want to use.
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While not a big deal for US users, having to change the paper size to the standard A4 every time you want to print is a real pain for UK and Australasian users, and 10.1 lacked an easy way to set a default. Thankfully, 10.2 includes such an option, and even tells you in the help:
Changing the default paper sizeWonderful!
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Not only in the UK and Australasia
...but A4 is also used the "continental" part of Europe. And, given that Europe still has quite some influence in Africa, based on old colonial bonds, A4 is problably also the main papersize in Africa. In other words, letter size paper is only used in (the) America(s)...
Quite UK and Au centric
This doesn't affect just UK and Au, it also has an impact on pretty much all X users in continental Europe and probably some Asian countries as well.
Quite UK and Au centric
Ack, every time I post a comment, someone manages to post a comment with the exact same point one or two minutes before me. Curse you all (:
Other printer features as well?
Does this also work for other printer features?
A4 is DIN A4
A4 is actually a DIN standard (which stands for German industry standard) much like the common larger A3 and the other A and B standards (the envelopes for the A's) so very much a 'continental' standard and not an anglo-american "thing"...
A4 is DIN A4 (really: ISO A4)
While it is true that the international paper size standard started out in Germany (the principles in 1786, the details in 1922), it is now an international standard, ISO 216, used as the principal paper format everywhere except North America.
More than you ever wanted to know about this in: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
Pity about the MS Word bug
It's a pity that this doesn't solve the bug in Word for X that interprets all documents created with earlier versions of word as being US Letter documents (even when Words default is set to A4).
Custom?!? i think you mean DEFAULT
is it me or does this hint not say ANYTHING about \\\"Custom Paper Size\\\". Sure its a great hint about setting the \\\"DEFAULT\\\" paper size, but the title says custom paper sizes. How the heck to i manually type in a custom paper size?!?!?
Easily set custom paper sizes in 10.2
I did this long ago, and still, every app I use defaults to US
Easily set custom paper sizes in 10.2
Cheer up folks! Try Rod Yager's freeware utility that changes your
Easily set custom paper sizes in 10.2
Or to do this from a Terminal window or script: defaults write com.apple.print.defaultpapersize DefaultPaperSize iso-a4 I recommend then copying the resulting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.defaultpapersize.plistfile to /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/so that all new users created on the computer will also have A4 as their default paper size. (perhaps with this command) cd ; sudo cp Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.defaultpapersize.plist /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/ |
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