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Re: set default print options on printer

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On 2018-03-10 03:49 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 15:07:55 -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
>
>> On 2018-03-10 12:04 PM, Brian wrote:
>>> On Sat 10 Mar 2018 at 09:52:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-03-10 08:23 AM, Brian wrote:
>>>>> BTW, it is possible to alter $HOME/.cups/lpoptions from within okular.
>>>>> File/Print/Name/Properties/Advanced. Highlight Page Size and double-
>>>>> click at the right side of the highlighted portion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps you have encountered the bug in Qt that Curt pointed to.
>>>> I can't get to the location you referred to. I get to File | Print OK, but
>>>> the Name is a pull down list. I can select any printer (they all show A4
>>>> paper as the default size) then click on the Properties button but there is
>>>> never an Advanced tab or button. I can't highlight Paper size nor the paper
>>>> pull down list. Double clicking on either does nothing.
>>> On stretch I see two tabs: Page (for Page Size, Orientation and Margins)
>>> and Advanced; I am using the PPD for your printer and Advanced options
>>> are under JCL and General.
>> On Buster I see Page and Job Options. Neither has an "Advanced Options".
> Where have you ever mentioned you are using buster on the client? I
> think that anyone responding to a mail asking for help is entitled to
> assume the user is using Debian. Debian is not buster. It also isn't
> unstable. wheezy and jessie are not Debian. The only Debian distribution
> is stretch.
>
> The onus is on the person asking the question to make it clear what is
> being used. Only now do you reveal it. Not only are we not on the same
> page in the hymn book, we are not in the same church. Much of the time
> it might not a make difference, but it does with okular.
>
> Regarding my single word response to your single word question in the
> other part of this mail: if you cannot find the wiki and search, then
> guiding you through any subsequent process seems fraught.
>
>
I mentioned it two messages back. As for the wiki, there are lots of 
wikis. Did you mean a Debian one, a KDE one, a CUPS one or a Tea4cups 
one? Even within each subject there are often multiple wikis.

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set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-08 04:00 +0100
  Re: set default print options on printer Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2018-03-08 04:50 +0100
  Re: set default print options on printer mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-03-08 07:50 +0100
  Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-08 16:00 +0100
    Re: set default print options on printer Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-08 17:50 +0100
      Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-08 21:30 +0100
      Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-09 06:10 +0100
        Re: set default print options on printer Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-09 11:10 +0100
    Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-09 06:30 +0100
      Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-09 13:20 +0100
        Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-10 05:20 +0100
          Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 14:30 +0100
            Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-10 16:00 +0100
              Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 18:10 +0100
                Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-10 21:10 +0100
                Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 21:20 +0100
                Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 22:00 +0100
                Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-10 23:30 +0100
                Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-11 00:10 +0100
                Re: set default print options on printer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-11 00:40 +0100
          Re: set default print options on printer David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 19:00 +0100
            Re: set default print options on printer Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-03-10 21:20 +0100

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