From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 10:39:08 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 3F3E31065672 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (asmtp1.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC24B8FC0C for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p28Ad5SF018281; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:05 GMT Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (80-45-152-196.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.45.152.196]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p28Ad4em018268; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:05 GMT Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A8F0233C1F; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:39:04 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20110308103904.GA36709@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:39:08 -0000 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:38:28AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > Hello. >=20 > I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers=20 > as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured= =20 > propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing is=20 > impossible. I hit the print button, a popup shows up with the configured= =20 > CUPS printing queue, but hitting OK doesn't have any effect. The funny=20 > thing is: when opening the same PDF (it is stored in /tmp/) with xpdf by= =20 > 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=20 > when the cups printing system got an update. I never figured out what's= =20 > the diffrence between starting xpdf via terminal and starting via=20 > firefox. My first guess was that my local ~/.xpdfrc does have effect, as= =20 > the right configured CUPS printing queue showed up, but even the=20 > firefox-started xpdf client shows the right printing queue, so this=20 > implies that xpdf also reads my ~/.xpdfrc. > I'm not sure what's going wrong. I have no clue what kind of paper=20 > information is passed to xpdf by being called via firefox. Any help=20 > appreciated. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > 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, --=20 Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk12B0cACgkQHduKvUAgeK4EoACfTkrmyJdUIbxvNk91P3eOMjqT p/QAn2dbK9IF36nGwFmkNAfj43/4hyXb =c/vN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--