[clug] GVIM paper size

[Scott Ferguson]

On 22/08/17 21:31, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux wrote:
> Indeed, Scott:
> 
>>> I am typing in this graphical version of the Vim text editor.
>>> https://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2017-August/036302.html
>>>
>>> But when I print, my printer objects, saying that US letter sized paper
>>> was requested. How can I stop this problem, which seems unique to GVIM?
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing you read the fine documentation?
> 
> I now have in GVIM the following window open.
> {
> option-window (~) - GVIM1
> }
> 
> Of which, section 11 says the following.
> 
> {
> 11 printing
> 
> printoptions    list of items that control the format of :hardcopy output
>      set popt=paper:a4
> printdevice    name of the printer to be used for :hardcopy
>      set pdev=
> printexpr    expression used to print the PostScript file for :hardcopy
>      set pexpr=system('lpr'\ .\ (&printdevice\ ==\ ''\ ?\ ''\ :\ '\ -P'\
> .\ &printdevice)\ .\ '\ '\ .\ v:fname_in)\ .\ delete(v:fname_in)\ +\
> v:shell_error
> printfont    name of the font to be used for :hardcopy
>      set pfn=courier
> printheader    format of the header used for :hardcopy
>      set pheader=%<%f%h%m%=Page\ %N
> printencoding    encoding used to print the PostScript file for :hardcopy
>      set penc=
> printmbcharset    the CJK character set to be used for CJK output from
> :hardcopy
>      set pmbcs=
> printmbfont    list of font names to be used for CJK output from :hardcopy
>      set pmbfn=
> }
> 
>> What does:-
>> less /etc/papersize
>> say?
> 
> "a4"

That is the default page size - check your printer settings as something
is over-riding the Vi(m) page size settings.


Kind regards


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