Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:43:35 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble printing from opera Message-ID: <20070416224335.2737b2b6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> References: <200704152149.58154.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com>
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:07:34 -0500 David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> wrote: > 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. I rarely every print anything these days, but I have printed through KDE in the past from Firefox. The terse note I made about it at the time was: kprinter --stdin presumably you could just put this in Opera as the print command.
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