Bug 159939

I was unable to reproduce this behavior in

Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: a2265e8faa099d9652efd12392c2877c2df1d1eb
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

or

Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: db4def46b0453cc22e2d0305797cf981b68ef5ac
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

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Style Page Style showing imperial measurments

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Screensho showing printer dialog showing metric page size

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Options-Preferences showing imperial measurement (inch)

Not sure why you can't see this.  Please see attached screenshots.  The screenshots are with present version on Windows 11

Version: 24.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d56cc158d8a96260b836f100ef4b4ef25d6f1a01
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-CA (en_CA); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

@bunkem: How did you get page layout showing in inch? I only get cm here.

Might be this is a mesurement of your whole system, not of LibreOffice. This could only be shown in listboxes, which will reproduce this measurement. It won't be shown in a text content like the page layout information in print dialog.

@Robert: I'm not sure.  My system is set up to Imperial (inch) measurements and I've changed all the user settings for Writer, Calc, Impress, Base to be Imperial (inch) also.

In all the other dialog boxes in LO, the measurement system is inch.  So it was just very strange to find metric in the print dialog.

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English_UK_settings

I was able to replicate the metric page sizes shown in the 2nd screenshot by going to :

Tools > Options > Languages and Locales > General


I then set the following settings:

Language Of 
    User interface: English (UK)

Formats
    Locale setting: English (UK)

Default Languages for Documents
    Western: English (UK)


after confirming that I got the exact same print Letter 216mm x 279mm screen I changed those 3 settings to English (USA) and I got Letter 8.5in x 11in. 

bunkem check the settings to see if they are correct

Thank you for having a look @Steve271

I have the following settings in Locale & Languages

User interface: Default - English (USA)
Locale setting: English (Canada)
Default language for documents: Western English (Canada)

I suppose that brings up the likely issue.

For some reason people think that Canada locale is metric paper, which it isn't.  Canada uses metric mostly, but not for paper.  We also use three or four different ways of showing the date (top three are: US MM/DD/YY; DD-MM-YYYY; YYYY-MM-DD).  It kind of makes your head spin but you get used to it.  In any case, you will never, ever, find a ream of A4 paper in any stores except by special order.  OK, apparently the Canadian government is using A4 but I've never seen it.

===off topic rant===
I've noticed the same thing with NextCloud.  The settings for Canada are all screwed up and so importing the Canada holidays calendar into NextCloud doesn't work if you chose UK English because I don't use US date formats.  There is no setting for what we actually use.  Another bug report for Nextcloud.
===rant off===

In any case, my Mac has system setting to use imperial measurements for applications because we use letter paper (i.e. 8 1/2 x 11" ) in all apps.

Libreoffice should pick this up from the system and also show the letter paper size in the print dialog ... not some metric equivalent.   No one here will know what that metric size means.