From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 09:10:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB86D106564A for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:10:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8636F8FC08 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1Pwsvr-0001gO-LB>; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:10:19 +0100 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1Pwsvr-0001kE-J7>; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:10:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4D75F27B.7020709@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:10:19 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kristofer M White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <2ypuye465qcuc3wmqpgivlmq.1299574150895@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <2ypuye465qcuc3wmqpgivlmq.1299574150895@email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 Cc: Subject: Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:10:21 -0000 How to 'configure' this? Firefox3 allows only selecting applications via 'Preferences' Menu. Trying to configure xpdf manually via "about"config" results in can-not-find-application-tag, means: tehre is nothing to look at. On 03/08/11 09:49, Kristofer M White wrote: > Does configuring firefox to launch something like "xterm -e xpdf" rather than just "xpdf" dump any errors to the term when trying to print? > > "O. Hartmann" wrote: > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"