Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:38:28 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox Message-ID: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Hello. I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing is impossible. I hit the print button, a popup shows up with the configured CUPS printing queue, but hitting OK doesn't have any effect. The funny thing is: when opening the same PDF (it is stored in /tmp/) with xpdf by starting xpdf from a terminal, printing on the same queue works well. I realized that the change of this behaviour occured a long time ago when the cups printing system got an update. I never figured out what's the diffrence between starting xpdf via terminal and starting via firefox. My first guess was that my local ~/.xpdfrc does have effect, as the right configured CUPS printing queue showed up, but even the firefox-started xpdf client shows the right printing queue, so this implies that xpdf also reads my ~/.xpdfrc. I'm not sure what's going wrong. I have no clue what kind of paper information is passed to xpdf by being called via firefox. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Oliver
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