Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:04 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox Message-ID: <20110308103904.GA36709@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:38:28AM +0100, 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 Oliver, I haven't got a fix for the above but have you tried using this add on for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/pdf-download/ Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk12B0cACgkQHduKvUAgeK4EoACfTkrmyJdUIbxvNk91P3eOMjqT p/QAn2dbK9IF36nGwFmkNAfj43/4hyXb =c/vN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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