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Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

This is a plea for help:

Whenever I swap printer, from HP P1102, to PDF995,
I have to re-select A4 paper size.
NWC ALWAYS has "LETTER" selected -
no matter that I've set "A4" at every place in the PDF995 printer setup,
before opening NWC.

Please, there are some parts of the world where "LETTER"- sized paper just is NOT used.

This plea applies to both NWC 2.5.5 and NWC 2.5.1 beta (upto and including 34)

Re: Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

Reply #1 –
I think it's not NWC to blame.
I see A4 in all my printers (virtual and not).
The only "letter" is in Microsoft XPS Document Writer, that I never used. :-)

Re: Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

Reply #2 –
Do you use the NWC - PDF995 combination?

Re: Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

Reply #3 –
For NWC 2.5.5 (and prior versions), set your window's default printer to A4. If you use the Printer Setup Command to change to PDF995, it should keep the window's default paper size.

The Beta currently works somewhat differently. When NWC 2.51 is released, it may offer more flexibility.
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Re: Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Haymo –
This is a plea for help:

Whenever I swap printer, from HP P1102, to PDF995,
I have to re-select A4 paper size.
NWC ALWAYS has "LETTER" selected -
no matter that I've set "A4" at every place in the PDF995 printer setup,
before opening NWC.

Please, there are some parts of the world where "LETTER"- sized paper just is NOT used.

This plea applies to both NWC 2.5.5 and NWC 2.5.1 beta (upto and including 34)

I have the opposite problem - very often NWC is set to A4 no matter how many times I've reset to Letter.  It may be something to do with the language settings in Windows - I prefer English to American spelling, but IIRC, after I changed that setting (years ago), I started always getting A4 as a default.

Haven't figured out how to apply Rick's suggestion but when I finish my current project maybe I'll take some time and figure it out. 

Re: Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Haymo –
Do you use the NWC - PDF995 combination?

I do, and it prints A4 without any changes needed.  Have you set a4 as the Page Size in pdfedit995?

Re: Nuisance habit of NWC: ALWAYS selecting "LETTER" size in PDF995

Reply #7 –
Quote from: PhilHolmes –
I do, and it prints A4 without any changes needed.  Have you set a4 as the Page Size in pdfedit995?
Thanks ever so much Phil.
What with hopping from one PC to the next, to the next, and another -
I'd forgotten about changing from LETTER to A4 in pdfedit995.


This may also be the solution to David's problem - the other way round.