From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 03:07:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D4316A403 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDF213C44C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:07:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from cpe-24-167-73-65.houston.res.rr.com (cpe-24-167-73-65.houston.res.rr.com [24.167.73.65]) by ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3G37aYr023720; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:07:37 -0500 (CDT) From: David J Brooks Organization: KC5WNK To: Jonathan Horne Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:07:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200704152149.58154.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200704152149.58154.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09R=09nSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble printing from opera 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: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:07:40 -0000 On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: > im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current opera. > i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess just kmail... but > i did test from konqueror, and that works too), but i cannot get opera to > send a job to my printer. > > if i go to the KDE printer manager, i can send a sucessful test page, but > opera just quietly prints nothing. where should i start looking to find > out where the breakdown is? > > thanks, I've never found a way to make non-KDE apps print from the KDE print manager. My solution has been to print to pdf and then load that into Kpdf and print from there. If there's a better way to do it, I'd love to learn how. David -- Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. -- Woody Allen, "All You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex"