Hard-codes paper size letter
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| html2ps (Debian) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| html2ps (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: html2ps
In contradiction to the documentation, the hard-coded default paper size for html2ps in /etc/html2psrc seems to be "letter". (The html2ps manual page says the default paper size is a4.)
Ideally, this should obey the user's LC_PAPER locale setting, or /etc/papersize, or less ideally use the system paper size when installing the package to create a configuration file for the system.
This is on a Gutsy system.
vnix$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
vnix$ apt-cache policy html2ps
html2ps:
Installed: 1.0b5-4
Candidate: 1.0b5-4
Version table:
*** 1.0b5-4 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
| Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in html2ps (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in html2ps (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
| Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in html2ps (Debian): | |
| importance: | Unknown → Undecided |
| status: | Fix Released → New |
I'm looking this on Quantal's html2ps 1.0b7-1 - and it's ... interesting.
The debian package has a patch (from 2002) that sets the default paper size to the value read from paperconf; so that seems to be
sensible; however my reading is that the default config file installed over rides this as you say to 'letter'
So I think you'd actually be better removing that config file.