用evince打印的设置中默认纸大小是letter (x31+ubuntu8.04)

This is because evince uses the value of the LC_PAPER locale setting, for en_US.UTF-8 this defaults to letter.
You can override this setting by using an LC_PAPER environment variable, if you want to do the change system wide you can add LC_PAPER=

"en_GB.UTF-8" (defaults to A4) to /etc/environment and log out and back into GNOME.