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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

On my Macbook Air, the page size default seems to come from 
SystemPreferences->Printers & Scanners->Default paper size (menu list 
including A4 and US letter - at the bottom of panel)

When I come back from Europe, it usually takes me awhile to remember to 
change this. It does not set itself.

Bob G


On 10/11/2016 01:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 10/11/2016 2:09 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > At least on Linux, and probably on other platforms, the system locale
> > specifies the standard local paper size. Can anybody explain to me,
> > then, why sch_screen.cpp:98 hard codes this to A4? KiCad is a localized
> > application, surely the developer who daydreamed of the entire world
> > using A4 by default was aware of this fact when they typed
> > m_paper(wxT("A4")) into the default constructor.
> I'm OK with changing this to the current locale.  It has to default to
> something when the object is created.  A PAGE_INFO object ctor could be
> created to do this.
>
> > A slightly less interesting question is why this appears not to be
> > something the user can configure.
> This would be a useful setting in both eeschema and pcbnew.
>
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