[Mac OS X TeX] Setting A4 as default paper size

[Michael Murray]

<x-flowed>I found the followign  fix for setting A4 as default paper size on 
MacFixit.  This
worked for me -- at least for the last couple of days.

As it involves fiddling with a system file you do it at your own
risk !!  I don't have sufficient expertise to assure you that it
will not do any harm.

Note that it is case sensitive. I entered iso-A4 and it didn't work.

>http://www.macfixit.com/archivesx/october.01.a.x.shtml
>
>
>Non-US default paper size: another work-around
>
>Regarding our previous item on changing the default paper size, 
>Martin Ler offers another solution:
>
>
>"Rather than working with the PaperInfo.xml file, open the 
>ApplicationServices.framework in System/Library/Frameworks and 
>navigate down to 
>Versions/A/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings. 
>In this file locate 'DefaultPaperSize = na-letter'.
>
>There you should place the name of your preferred default page size. 
>The right names you will find in the PaperInfo.xml file up in the 
>Resources directory. For example: na-letter is name for US-Letter 
>and iso-a4 is for A4 paper size."
>
>
>Caveat: You will need to be a root user to edit this; and changing 
>System files is always a risk.


Michael

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