Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:11:12 -0500 From: Steven Lake <steven.lake@corecomm.com> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing problems with Mozilla and Firefox on Freebsd 5.3 Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20051218120850.00bf96f0@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420512180830u707b7d2etc3d3282ffcf0cb5b@mail.gmail.co m> References: <200512181015.18357.steven.lake@voyager.net> <200512181015.18357.steven.lake@voyager.net>
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At 07:30 PM 12/18/2005 +0300, Andrew P. wrote:
>On 12/18/05, Steven Lake <steven.lake@voyager.net> wrote:
> > Ok, got a weird one here. Got cups setup with our
> > new office lan printer and I can print just fine from any
> > program, EXCEPT Mozilla and Firefox. They go through
> > the motions, but nothing happens. Nothing shows up in
> > the que or the access or error logs or anything. Am I
> > missing something? My research via google into this
> > found me several pages that mentioned something about
> > 'msttcorefonts', but after some playing with this they don't
> > seem to be installable on freebsd. Any suggestions?
>
>I think x11-fonts/webfonts may be referenced as msttcorefonts
>in other distributions. I can't explain why, but try to install the
>print/gtklp port and change the print command in firefox to
>gtklp.
Installed webfonts and gtklp and restarted x and no go
still. :( One thing I did notice is that all the others go to a normal
print window, but the two browsers go to some custom printing screen and
say something about "postscript/printer_name" instead of the normal KDE
cups installed printer. Would that possibly cause part of the issue?
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