Specifying the size of a page in Pages

If you made the customsized document from within Pages you should get a changed page size with the name untitked if you haven't given it a specific name. Open a blanc document and click on Page Setup. Click on Paper size button. Just above Manage custom sizes the name of the new size should be written.

I am able to reproduce something which resembles to the described behavior:

System with at least two different printers connected.
One is set as the default one and is unable to deal with the custom format (my lase printer for instance)
An other one which of course is not set as the default printer.

When I open the document using the custom format, Pages returns to the default printer dropping the custom format.

The fact that Pages doesn't take care of the embedded print record was reported several times, at least since the delivery of iWork '08 but the problem is always here, even in iWork '09 😟

_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'10 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 15 juillet 2009 15:13:46)

Benjamin wrote:
Thank you for your answer.
This is indeed the behaviour that I was expecting. However, it does not work: My new size is not taken into account and Pages automatically goes back to the A4 format.
Is there anything I have not done that I should do?

Do you mean that Pages, the application, isn't using your custom sized document each time you start a new document or do you mean the specific document you talked about in your first post?

If you mean your first document do this:
#1 open the document
#2 go to Page set up and choose the new paper size you have already specified
#3 the document should change in paper size. SAVE it!
#4 If you want to have it as a template Save As Template

If you want to always open new docs with the new custom sized paper do this
Go to Pages menu > Preferences > Select Use Template > click on Choose button >Select you new template > click Choose button

Does it matter whether the other two printers are on or off at the time?

Walt

Benjamin, I read you first post again and now I see the small size, 8.7 by 5.7 centimeters! Do you have papers that small??? Are the printers able to print that small???

I tried to make that small custom sized paper and it doesn't work! BUT it worked with 9 cm by 6 cm!

May I ask for what you need that small size?