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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:13:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
To: "Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem 1.10.0 not allowing paper size to be selected
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I have a printer that can print "B" size (11x17), but I cannot select 
> other than "Letter" size paper in the gschem print dialog and, of 
> course, it prints in tiny "A" size. The paper size option button is 
> greyed out in the dialog and it looks like this parameter is used to 
> scale the output.

Fixed in git master.

An alternative way to set the paper size is adding the following lines to 
~/.config/gEDA/geda-user.conf:

[gschem.printing]
paper = iso_a4