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

[Alessandro Languasco]

<x-flowed ISO-8859-1>Just to say that I applied the same trick and it runs fine .

Alessandro
On Lunedì, ottobre 22, 2001, at 03:09 , Michael Murray wrote:

> 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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