Gedit and Printing

[Joe]

Two questions:
1) When I print from gedit, lines get wrapped on the page, but they're  
a little too long and the last word or two gets rewraped midword on the 
printed page.  Is there a way to tell gedit how wide a page should be?

2) When I print from gedit (and elsewhere) fonts get selected and it 
prints the way I want it to.  When I print directly (cat file > lp), it 
has to choose some font, but the one it chooses is microscopic.  Where 
do I tell the sytem what font to use if none is selected?
I'm using Mandrake 9.1 rc2, kdesktop, if that matters.

Thanks.

Joe